Emanuele Cerulli Irelli, Maria S Borioni, Alessandra Morano, Adolfo Mazzeo, Pierludovico Moro, Biagio Orlando, Enrico M Salamone, Luca Giordano, Alessio Petrungaro, Marco Toccaceli Blasi, Anna T Giallonardo, Marco Canevelli, Carlo Di Bonaventura
OBJECTIVE: Due to the high clinical heterogeneity of epilepsy, there is a critical need for novel metrics aimed at capturing its biological and phenotypic complexity. Frailty is increasingly recognized in various medical disciplines as a useful construct to understand differences in susceptibility to adverse outcomes. Here, we develop a frailty index (FI) for patients with epilepsy (PwE) and explore its association with demographic and clinical features. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, we consecutively enrolled 153 PwE from an outpatient epilepsy clinic...
March 27, 2024: Epilepsia