COVID-19 and associations with frailty and multimorbidity: a prospective analysis of UK Biobank participants

SJ Woolford, S D'Angelo, EM Curtis… - Aging Clinical and …, 2020 - Springer
Background Frailty and multimorbidity have been suggested as risk factors for severe
COVID-19 disease. Aims We investigated, in the UK Biobank, whether frailty and …

[HTML][HTML] Frailty in the context of COVID-19 pandemic: a life-threatening condition

AL Fernandes, RMR Pereira - Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The pandemic outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused emerging
challenges for healthcare systems regarding the assistance to the older adult population …

The association between frailty and severe disease among COVID-19 patients aged over 60 years in China: a prospective cohort study

Y Ma, L Hou, X Yang, Z Huang, X Yang, N Zhao, M He… - BMC medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been a pandemic worldwide.
Old age and underlying illnesses are associated with poor prognosis among COVID-19 …

[HTML][HTML] Frailty pathogenesis, assessment, and management in older adults with COVID-19

Q She, B Chen, W Liu, M Li, W Zhao, J Wu - Frontiers in Medicine, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a highly contagious and deadly disease. The
elderly people are often accompanied by chronic inflammation and immunodeficiency …

Geriatric population during the COVID-19 pandemic: problems, considerations, exigencies, and beyond

K Dhama, SK Patel, R Kumar, J Rana… - Frontiers in public …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic wreaked havoc worldwide, with more
than 20 million confirmed cases and nearly 0. 75 million deaths as of 10th August 2020 …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 vaccination and frailty in older adults

LK Chen - Archives of gerontology and geriatrics, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The COVID-19 pandemic strongly impacts the whole world in various dimensions (Wang,
2020), and studies have shown the high mortality risk of older patients with COVID-19 …

COVID-19: pandemic risk, resilience and possibilities for aging research

A Wister, M Speechley - Canadian Journal on Aging/La revue …, 2020 - cambridge.org
The COVID-19 global crisis is reshaping Canadian society in unexpected and profound
ways. The significantly higher morbidity and mortality risks by age suggest that this is largely …

Triple jeopardy in ageing: COVID-19, co-morbidities and inflamm-ageing

IM Rea, HD Alexander - Ageing research reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Covid-19 endangers lives, has disrupted normal life, changed the way medicine is practised
and is likely to alter our world for the foreseeable future. Almost two years on since the …

A geroscience perspective on COVID-19 mortality

DEL Promislow - The journals of gerontology: Series A, 2020 - academic.oup.com
A novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, emerged in December 2019, leading within a few
months to a global pandemic. COVID-19, the disease caused by this highly contagious virus …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of aging on deterioration of patients with COVID-19

L Pang, Y Liu, M Shen, J Ye, R Chen, Z Lan… - Aging (Albany …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Aging is an important factor affecting the deterioration of patients with coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19). The aging and degeneration of various tissues and organs in the elderly …