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Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2007 Abstract The term “frailty” is used loosely to describe a range of conditions in older people, including general debility and cognitive impairment. There is no clear consensus on the definition of frailty; however, it is proposed that frailty comprises a collection of biomedical factors which influences an individual's physiological ...
Frank, Lally, Peter, Crome
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THE INFLUENCE OF LIFESTYLE BEHAVIORS ON THE INCIDENCE OF FRAILTY
, 2020 BACKGROUND: Frailty is a clinical state defined as an increase in an individual’s vulnerability to developing adverse health-related outcomes. OBJECTIVES: We propose that healthy behaviors could lower the incidence of frailty.
AVILA-FUNES, J.A. +11 more
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Geriatric Care, 2019 Aging of population represents a new challenge for physicians who have to deal with the balance of risk and benefit in a population that is poorly represented in clinical trials. Frail patients need individualized treatments because of their high risk of
Lisa Cammalleri +6 more
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Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2011 Although anemia is regarded as a relatively common occurrence in older adults, the vigor with which the medical community should intervene to correct this common problem is disputed. Epidemiologic data clearly correlate anemia with functional decline, disability, and mortality.
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Journal of Aging Studies, 2022 Taking as a point of departure the role that the category of frailty increasingly plays in the classification, sorting and management of ageing populations in contemporary societies, this paper focuses on the crafting and validation of mouse models of frailty.
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Baseline Frailty Measured by the Risk Analysis Index and 30-Day Mortality After Surgery for Spinal Malignancy: Analysis of a Prospective Registry (2011–2020) [PDF]
NeurospineObjective To evaluate the prognostic utility of baseline frailty, measured by the Risk Analysis Index (RAI), for prediction of postoperative mortality among patients with spinal malignancy (SM) undergoing resection.
Rachel Thommen +4 more
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Breast, 2022 First-line treatment in postmenopausal women with estrogen- and/or progesterone-positive breast cancer consists of aromatase inhibitors (AROi).
Javier García-Sánchez +3 more
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Comparing Virtual and Center Based Cardiac Rehabilitation on Changes in Frailty
, 2022 This is a paper-based thesis, however, the manuscript (Chapter 4) has not been submitted to an academic journal at the time of submitting this thesis.Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is the gold standard for the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease (
MacEachern, Evan
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Drugs - Real World Outcomes, 2019 Aim While proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are generally considered safe and well tolerated, frail older people who take PPIs long term may be susceptible to adverse events.
Ivanka Hendrix +8 more
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, 2023 Frailty describes individuals with increased susceptibility to adverse health outcomes. The frailty index (FI) quantifies frailty by measuring deficit accumulation. This project aimed to characterize the molecular signature of frailty in the mouse kidney
Hodgins, Maddison
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