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Physical Resilience: Not Simply the Opposite of Frailty [PDF]
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2018 See related editorial by George A. Kuchel
Heather E, Whitson +5 more
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Cognitive function in Prefrail and frail community-dwelling older adults in China
BMC Geriatrics, 2019 Background Physical frailty, characterized by reduced physiologic complexity and ability to cope with stressors, is closely associated with cognitive impairment, which increases the risk of poor clinical outcomes.
Lina Ma +4 more
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Early life factors associated with old age physical frailty: evidence from India
Aging and Health Research, 2022 Background: Physical frailty is one of the most important phenotypes used to understand the vulnerable nature of older adults. The paper examined the association of childhood factors, including birth order, childhood socioeconomic status, and other ...
CV Irshad +4 more
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, 2023 Background: Physical frailty and cognitive impairment are prevalent globally, particularly in China, which is experiencing an unprecedented aging of its large population.
Yuan, Yiyang +3 more
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Malang Neurology Journal, 2018 Background. Physical activity is being a protective factor of frailty syndrome. Sedentary life style is related to frailty, comorbidities and mortality. Sitting time is associated with greater risk of dying from all causes of mortality.
Sri Sunarti +2 more
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Physical frailty after liver transplantation [PDF]
American Journal of Transplantation, 2018 Frailty is prevalent in liver transplant candidates, but little is known of what happens to frailty after liver transplantation. We analyzed data for 214 adult liver transplant recipients who had ≥1 frailty assessment using the Liver Frailty Index (LFI) at 3- (n = 178), 6- (n = 139), or 12- (n = 107) months posttransplant (higher values=more frail ...
Lai, Jennifer C +5 more
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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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PROCESS OF PHYSICAL DISABILITY AMONG OLDER ADULTS : CONTRIBUTION OF FRAILTY IN THE SUPER-AGED SOCIETY [PDF]
, 2012 2012-02One of the critical issues that Japan, well known for the world’s highest proportion of older adults, a super-aged society, is currently confronting is how to prevent physical disability in old age.
KUZUYA, MASAFUMI
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Determination of an Optimal Frailty Cutoff Score of Tilburg Frailty Indicator and Frailty Associated Factors in Community-Dwelling Turkish Older Adults [PDF]
Annals of Geriatric Medicine and Research, 2021 Background Frailty is a multidimensional and dynamic state that has adverse physical, psychological, and social outcomes. The Tilburg Frailty Indicator (TFI) has the most robust evidence of reliability and validity for assessing frailty.
Gulsah Ozsoy +4 more
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Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022 BackgroundPhysical frailty and cognitive aging have important influences on poor clinical outcomes in older adults. Many studies have investigated the association between frailty and cognitive function, but whether vitamin D mediates the association ...
Jian Xiong, Wen-Xiong Xue
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