Frailty prevalence and associated factors in the Mexican health and aging study: A comparison of the frailty index and the phenotype

BACKGROUND: Frailty is a relatively new phenomenon described mainly in the older population. There are a number of different tools that aim at categorizing an older adult as frail. Two of the main tools for this purpose are the Fried's frailty phenotype (FFP) and the frailty index (FI). The aim...

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Published in:Exp Gerontol
Main Authors: García-Peña, Carmen, Ávila-Funes, José Alberto, Dent, Elsa, Gutiérrez-Robledo, Luis, Pérez-Zepeda, Mario
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5497729/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27032304
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.exger.2016.03.016
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