Feeling Tired? Study Finds Prevalence Of Anergia In People With Failing Hearts
Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 14:38
in Health & Medicine
A noninvasive method of monitoring human activity is helping doctors and researchers shed 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."