Prevalence and correlates of frailty in an older rural African population: findings from the HAALSI cohort study

BACKGROUND: Frailty is a key predictor of death and dependency, yet little is known about frailty in sub-Saharan Africa despite rapid population ageing. We describe the prevalence and correlates of phenotypic frailty using data from the Health and Aging in Africa: Longitudinal Studies of an INDEPTH...

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Published in:BMC Geriatr
Main Authors: Payne, Collin F., Wade, Alisha, Kabudula, Chodziwadziwa W., Davies, Justine I., Chang, Angela Y., Gomez-Olive, F. Xavier, Kahn, Kathleen, Berkman, Lisa F., Tollman, Stephen M., Salomon, Joshua A., Witham, Miles D.
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Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5745732/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29281995
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-017-0694-y
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