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Frailty and Mortality in Kidney Transplant Recipients

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Regardless of age, frailty is a strong, independent risk factor for post‐KT mortality, even after carefully adjusting for many confounders using a novel, efficient statistical approach.
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This article is published in American Journal of Transplantation.The article was published on 2015-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 258 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Transplantation & Proportional hazards model.

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Frailty: implications for clinical practice and public health.

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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Development of a novel frailty index to predict mortality in patients with end-stage liver disease

TL;DR: The frailty index for patients with cirrhosis, comprised of three performance‐based metrics, has construct validity for the concept of frailty and improves risk prediction of waitlist mortality over MELDNa alone.
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Report from the American Society of Transplantation on frailty in solid organ transplantation

TL;DR: This conference achieved its intent to highlight the importance of frailty in organ transplantation and to plant the seeds for further discussion and research in this field.
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Frailty in Older Adults Evidence for a Phenotype

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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Frailty as a Predictor of Surgical Outcomes in Older Patients

TL;DR: Frailty independently predicts postoperative complications, length of stay, and discharge to a skilled or assisted-living facility in older surgical patients and enhances conventional risk models.
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Phenotype of Frailty: Characterization in the Women's Health and Aging Studies

TL;DR: The frailty definition developed in the CHS is applicable across diverse population samples and identifies a profile of high risk of multiple adverse outcomes and is consistent with the widely held theory that conceptualizes frailty as a syndrome.
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Frailty and Activation of the Inflammation and Coagulation Systems With and Without Clinical Comorbidities Results From the Cardiovascular Health Study

TL;DR: The hypothesis that there is a specific physiological basis to the geriatric syndrome of frailty that is characterized in part by increased inflammation and elevated markers of blood clotting is supported and that these physiological differences persist when those with diabetes and cardiovascular disease are excluded.
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