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Flávia Sousa Arantes1, Vinicius Rosa Oliveira2, Aime Karla Moraes Leão3
1Human Movement and Rehabilitation, Post-Graduate Program Medical School, Evangelic University of Goiás-UniEVANGÉLICA, Anápolis, Brazil.
Abstract:
Frailty is a state of critical loss of physiological complexity resulting in greater vulnerability to stressors and has been characterized as a debility syndrome in the older adult. Changes in functional capacity and the cardiovascular system during aging are the most significant and relevant for this population, including the clinically healthy. In this sense, this review aims to investigate methods to monitor the performance of older adults, such as heart rate variability and verify how it can be related to frailty. It contributes to understanding that the changes in heart variability can be a marker for frailty in older adults.
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