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Prevalence and 10‐Year Outcomes of Frailty in Older Adults in Relation to Deficit Accumulation
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2010 · Vol. 58(4) · pp. 681–687
Xiaowei Song✉(Dalhousie University)Arnold Mitnitski(National Research Council Institute for Biodiagnostics)Kenneth Rockwood(National Research Council Institute for Biodiagnostics)
Abstract
The prevalence of frailty increases with age and at any age lessens survival. The Frailty Index approach readily identifies frail people at risk of death, presumably because of its use of multiple health deficits in multidimensional domains.
Frailty in Older AdultsNutrition and Health in AgingHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of LifeMedicineFrailty IndexHazard ratioConfidence intervalGerontologyDemographyCohort studyPopulationProspective cohort studyCohort
MeSH terms
AgedAged, 80 and overAnalysis of VarianceCanadaFemalePersons with DisabilitiesDisabled PersonsHealth StatusHealth SurveysHumansMaleMortalityProspective StudiesROC CurveSeverity of Illness Index
Funding
- Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation
- Dalhousie University
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