Objective Frailty is associated with increased vulnerability to poor health. There is growing
interest in understanding the association between frailty and chronic kidney disease (CKD) …

Purpose While some people remain fit and active as they grow older, others experience
complex problems: disease, dependency and disability. Frailty is a term used to describe …

It is a truth universally acknowledged that although men tend to have better health in old
age, women live longer lives. Here, we briefly review the biological, social and behavioural …

Background Frailty has been conceptualized as a wasting disorder with weight loss as a key
component. However, obesity is associated with disability and with physiological markers …

Inflammation in patients defined as frail by Fried's phenotypic definition may be related to
sarcopenia. This study aimed to investigate inflammation in older patients across different …

Background: delirium and frailty are common among hospitalised older people but delirium
is often missed and frailty considered difficult to measure in clinical practice. Objective: to …

Aims frailty is proposed as a summative measure of health status and marker of individual
vulnerability. We aimed to investigate the discriminative capacity of a frailty index (FI) …

Introduction: hip fracture is expensive in terms of mortality, hospital length of stay (LOS) and
consequences for independence. Poor outcome reflects the vulnerability of patients who …

Frailty is a term used as a marker of vulnerability, identifying individuals with a diminished
capacity to respond to external stressors. Those who are frail are at increased risk of death …

OBJECTIVES: To assess how individual socioeconomic status and neighborhood
deprivation affect frailty. DESIGN: Nationally representative population‐based study, the …