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Jack M. Guralnik

Researcher at University of Maryland, Baltimore

Publications -  472
Citations -  90624

Jack M. Guralnik is an academic researcher from University of Maryland, Baltimore. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Anemia. The author has an hindex of 148, co-authored 453 publications receiving 83701 citations. Previous affiliations of Jack M. Guralnik include National Institutes of Health & University of Florida.

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The frailty syndrome: a critical issue in geriatric oncology

TL;DR: Evidence exists that the geriatric intervention guided by Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment has positive effects on a number of important health outcomes in frail older patients and improvements in the definition of the frailty syndrome may profit from the clinical experience of oncologists.
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Fatigue in a Representative Population of Older Persons and Its Association With Functional Impairment, Functional Limitation, and Disability

TL;DR: Older persons who report fatigue had significantly poorer functional status than those who did not report this symptom and the causal link between fatigue and these outcomes should be further investigated.
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The Impact of Functional Status on Life Expectancy in Older Persons

TL;DR: This work uses longitudinal data from the Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly to determine transition probabilities between three functional states and death and found that both ADL and mobility disability result in diminished survival and more of that survival period spent in disabled states.