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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Medicine, Natural history, Gerontology, Ethnic group, Incidence (geometry)

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