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Highlights of the Canadian Frailty Network (CFN) Highly Qualified Personnel Poster Session
Canadian Geriatrics Journal, 2019 -
John Muscedere +4 more
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Can Leucine Supplementation Improve Frailty Index Scores?
Geriatrics, 2023 Sarcopenia and frailty are important conditions that become increasingly prevalent with age. There is partial overlap between the two conditions, especially in terms of the physical aspects of the frailty phenotype: low grip strength, gait speed, and ...
Cristina Buigues +5 more
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Inflammatory markers and incident frailty in men and women:the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing [PDF]
, 2013 Cross-sectional studies show that higher blood concentrations of inflammatory markers tend to be more common in frail older people, but longitudinal evidence that these inflammatory markers are risk factors for frailty is sparse and inconsistent.
Gale, Catharine R +8 more
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Diseases, 2022 Nickel is associated with cancer in occupational exposure. However, few studies have been devoted to analyzing the effects of nickel at environmental concentrations in cancer patients.
Antoni Alegre-Martínez +3 more
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Clinical Medicine, 2011 Frailty (Latin: fragilita; brittleness) is an important but incompletely understood clinical concept in geriatric medicine. There is no internationally agreed definition, but a consensus view is emerging[1][1] in which the phenotype of frailty is considered to develop as a consequence of a ...
Andrew, Clegg, John, Young
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A covariance-based test for shared frailty in multivariate lifetime data [PDF]
, 2012 We decompose the score statistic for testing for shared finite variance frailty in multivariate lifetime data into marginal and covariance-based terms.
Kimber, Alan, Sarker, Shah-Jalal
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Canadian Frailty Network (CFN) National Conference Abstracts
Canadian Geriatrics Journal, 2017 One of the components of the Canadian Frailty Network (CFN) Interdisciplinary Training Program is for HQPs to disseminate their work through publication and meetings.
John Muscedere +4 more
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Predictive Abilities of the Frailty Phenotype and the Swiss Frailty Network and Repository Frailty Index for Non-Home Discharge and Functional Decline in Hospitalized Geriatric Patients [PDF]
, 2022 BACKGROUND: Frailty is increasingly applied as a measure to predict clinical outcomes, but data on the predictive abilities of frailty measures for non-home discharge and functional decline in acutely hospitalized geriatric patients are scarce ...
Schilling, N. +5 more
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BMC Geriatrics, 2020 Background Frailty exposes older people to an elevated risk of a range of negative outcomes. Emerging evidence that frailty can be effectively treated within community settings has stimulated calls for more proactive screening within primary care ...
Rachel C. Ambagtsheer +4 more
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BMC Primary Care, 2022 Background Frailty is a highly prevalent clinical syndrome increasing older people’s vulnerability to risk of adverse outcomes. Better frailty identification through expanded screening implementation has been advocated within general practice settings ...
Rachel C. Ambagtsheer +6 more
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