Saturday, March 14, 2009

Prevalence Of Anergia - Fatigue - In Those With Failing Hearts

Prevalence Of Anergia - Fatigue - In Those With Failing Hearts
With the help of a non-invasive method of monitoring human activity, doctors and researchers at Columbia University Medical Center are shedding new light on a syndrome affecting nearly 40 percent of older adults with heart failure: anergia. Anergia, or lack of energy, is a newly delineated, criterion-based geriatric syndrome that is often overlooked or dismissed by doctors and patients alike as simply a natural tiredness associated with "old age.

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