The Frailty Syndrome: Definition and Natural History
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Summary
This article reviews the current state of knowledge regarding the epidemiology of frailty by focusing on 6 specific areas: clinical definitions of Frailty, evidence ofFrailty as a medical syndrome, prevalence and incidence by age, gender, race, and ethnicity, transitions between discrete frailty states, and natural history of manifestations of frailt criteria.
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- review
- Published
- 2011-02-01
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- 1,829
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- 48
- Access
- Open access
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- https://openalex.org/W2095439262
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- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:206598187
Keywords
Medicine, Natural history, Gerontology, Ethnic group, Incidence (geometry)
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