Frailty and multimorbidity: a systematic review and meta-analysis

DL Vetrano, K Palmer, A Marengoni… - The Journals of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
multimorbidity as having two or more diseases and frailty … In meta-analyses, the prevalence
of multimorbidity in frail … and the prevalence of frailty among multimorbid individuals was 16% …

Frailty, multimorbidity patterns and mortality in institutionalized older adults in Italy

C Damiano, G Onder, MB Zazzara, A Carfì… - Aging Clinical and …, 2022 - Springer
… is known on the role that frailty may have on the … multimorbidity. The aim of the present study
is to evaluate the interplay between multimorbidity and frailty in the association with mortality

Frailty and pre-frailty in middle-aged and older adults and its association with multimorbidity and mortality: a prospective analysis of 493 737 UK Biobank participants

P Hanlon, BI Nicholl, BD Jani, D Lee… - The Lancet Public …, 2018 - thelancet.com
… or effects on mortality in younger populations. This paper aims to examine the association
between frailty, multimorbidity, specific long-term conditions, and mortality in a middle-aged …

Multi-morbidity, dependency, and frailty singly or in combination have different impact on health outcomes

J Woo, J Leung - Age, 2014 - Springer
… Of the remaining participants, nearly one third had multi-morbidity and frailty (pre-frail and
frail), while … Mortality was only increased for age, being male, frailty status, and combinations of …

Beyond chronological age: frailty and multimorbidity predict in-hospital mortality in patients with coronavirus disease 2019

A Marengoni, A Zucchelli, DL Vetrano… - The Journals of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… The aim of this study was to evaluate whether frailty and multimorbidity predict in-hospital
mortality beyond chronological age among patients with COVID-19 admitted to a tertiary care …

Predicting mortality and hospitalization of older adults by the multimorbidity frailty index

YC Wen, LK Chen, FY Hsiao - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
… We constructed the multimorbidity frailty index using cumulative deficit approach and … to
the multimorbidity frailty index quartiles: fit, mild frailty, moderate frailty and severe frailty. The …

Survival of elderly outpatients: effects of frailty, multimorbidity and disability

DEC Leme, RP Thomaz, FSA Borim… - Ciência & Saúde …, 2019 - SciELO Public Health
patients attended in outpatient facilities have a higher number of comorbidities, multimorbidity,
disability and mortality 38 … Profile and causes of mortality among elderly patients seen in a …

Multimorbidity and mortality in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

BP Nunes, TR Flores, GI Mielke, E Thume… - Archives of gerontology …, 2016 - Elsevier
… and other conditions to define frailty, evaluated multimorbidity related only to mental health
or … A meta-analysis using random effect to obtain a pooled effect of multimorbidity on mortality

Physical frailty, multimorbidity, and all-cause mortality in an older population from southern Italy: results from the Salus in Apulia study

F Castellana, L Lampignano, I Bortone, R Zupo… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - Elsevier
… We first estimated the prevalence of physical frailty in older subjects from the population-…
mortality. Second, we explored the relationship between multimorbidity and physical frailty. …

Relationship between multimorbidity and disability in elderly patients with coexisting frailty syndrome

M Jędrzejczyk, W Foryś, M Czapla… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
… The Charlson Coexistence Index (CCI) is a scale that helps to assess a patient’s burden of
comorbidities. It allows calculation of the risk of death within one year based on comorbidities …