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Frailty and Early Hospital Readmission After Kidney Transplantation

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In this article, a measure of physiologic reserve, called frailty, was proposed as a predictor of early hospital readmission after kidney transplantation (EHR) in kidney transplant patients.
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This article is published in American Journal of Transplantation.The article was published on 2013-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 260 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Transplantation.

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Frailty in Older Adults: A Nationally Representative Profile in the United States

TL;DR: The findings support the importance of frailty in late-life health etiology and potential value of frailt as a marker of risk for adverse health outcomes and as a means of identifying opportunities for intervention in clinical practice and public health policy.
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Frailty Predicts Waitlist Mortality in Liver Transplant Candidates

TL;DR: Frailty strongly predicts waitlist mortality, even after adjustment for liver disease severity, demonstrating the applicability and importance of the frailty construct in this population of liver transplant candidates.
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Frailty and cancer: Implications for oncology surgery, medical oncology, and radiation oncology.

TL;DR: The concept of frailty has become increasingly recognized as one of the most important issues in health care and health outcomes and is of particular importance in patients with cancer who are receiving treatment with surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy as discussed by the authors.
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Development and Initial Validation of the Risk Analysis Index for Measuring Frailty in Surgical Populations.

TL;DR: The RAi-C and RAI-A represent effective tools for measuring frailty in surgical populations with predictive ability on par with other frailty tools and Moderate correlation between the measures suggests convergent validity.
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Sarcopenia and Mortality after Liver Transplantation

TL;DR: Central sarcopenia strongly correlates with mortality after liver transplantation and the impact of psoas area on survival exceeded that of all other covariates in these models.
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Inflammation and Frailty in Older Women

TL;DR: To evaluate relationships between white blood cell (WBC) count and interleukin‐6 (IL‐6) and prevalent frailty, a large number of animals were vaccinated for WBC and IL‐6 infection.
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Initial Manifestations of Frailty Criteria and the Development of Frailty Phenotype in the Women's Health and Aging Study II

TL;DR: It is suggested that weakness may serve as a warning sign of increasing vulnerability in early frailty development, and weight loss and exhaustion may help to identify women most at risk for rapid adverse progression.
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Insulin resistance and inflammation as precursors of frailty: The cardiovascular health study

TL;DR: Two physiologic components of MetS- IR-HOMA and inflammation-are associated with incident frailty and can be considered part of a larger process that leads to generalized decline.
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Frailty as a novel predictor of mortality and hospitalization in individuals of all ages undergoing hemodialysis.

TL;DR: To quantify the prevalence of frailty in adults of all ages undergoing chronic hemodialysis, its relationship to comorbidity and disability, and its association with adverse outcomes of mortality and hospitalization.
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