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Association of frailty with survival: a systematic literature review.
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It is estimated that 3-5% of deaths among older adults could be delayed if frailty was prevented, and geriatric assessment of frailty provides clinically important information about functional status and survival of older adults.About:
This article is published in Ageing Research Reviews.The article was published on 2013-03-01. It has received 486 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Population.read more
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Frailty Consensus: A Call to Action
John E. Morley,Bruno Vellas,G. Abellan Van Kan,Stefan D. Anker,Juergen M. Bauer,Roberto Bernabei,Matteo Cesari,Wm. Cameron Chumlea,Wolfram Doehner,Jonathan Evans,Linda P. Fried,Jack M. Guralnik,Paul R. Katz,Theodore K. Malmstrom,Roger McCarter,Luis Miguel Francisco Gutierrez Robledo,Kenneth Rockwood,Stephan von Haehling,Maurits Vandewoude,Jeremy D. Walston +19 more
TL;DR: For the purposes of optimally managing individuals with physical frailty, all persons older than 70 years and all individuals with significant weight loss (>5%) due to chronic disease should be screened for frailty.
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Frailty: implications for clinical practice and public health.
Emiel O. Hoogendijk,Jonathan Afilalo,Kristine E. Ensrud,Paul Kowal,Graziano Onder,Linda P. Fried +5 more
TL;DR: An overview of the global impact and burden of frailty, the usefulness of the frailty concept in clinical practice, potential targets for frailty prevention, and directions that need to be explored in the future are provided.
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Frailty Assessment in the Cardiovascular Care of Older Adults
Jonathan Afilalo,Karen P. Alexander,Michael J. Mack,Mathew S. Maurer,Philip Green,Larry A. Allen,Jeffrey J. Popma,Luigi Ferrucci,Daniel E. Forman +8 more
TL;DR: This work sought to synthesize the existing body of evidence and offer a perspective on how to integrate frailty into clinical practice and contribute valuable prognostic insights incremental to existing risk models and assists clinicians in defining optimal care pathways for their patients.
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Association of weight status with mortality in adults with incident diabetes.
Mercedes R. Carnethon,Peter John D De Chavez,Mary L. Biggs,Cora E. Lewis,James S. Pankow,Alain G. Bertoni,Sherita Hill Golden,Kiang Liu,Kenneth J. Mukamal,Brenda W. Campbell-Jenkins,Alan R. Dyer +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the association of weight status with mortality in adults with new-onset diabetes in order to minimize the influence of diabetes duration and voluntary weight loss on mortality was tested.
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Frailty index as a predictor of mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis
TL;DR: This systematic review and meta-analysis was the first to quantitatively demonstrate that frailty measured by the FI is a significant predictor of mortality.
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TL;DR: This study provides a potential standardized definition for frailty in community-dwelling older adults and offers concurrent and predictive validity for the definition, and finds that there is an intermediate stage identifying those at high risk of frailty.
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