Association of grip strength with risk of all-cause mortality, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer in community-dwelling populations: a meta-analysis of prospective …

Y Wu, W Wang, T Liu, D Zhang - Journal of the American Medical Directors …, 2017 - Elsevier
Objectives Grip strength has been linked to risk of adverse health outcomes. This study
aimed to quantitatively assess the associations between grip strength and risk of all-cause …

Frailty and malnutrition: related and distinct syndrome prevalence and association among community-dwelling older adults: Singapore longitudinal ageing studies

K Wei, MSZ Nyunt, Q Gao, SL Wee, TP Ng - Journal of the American …, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective The association between frailty and malnutrition is widely noted, but the common
and distinct aspects of this relationship are not well understood. We investigated the …

Frailty status in older adults is related to alterations in indoleamine 2, 3-dioxygenase 1 and guanosine triphosphate cyclohydrolase I enzymatic pathways

D Marcos-Pérez, M Sánchez-Flores, A Maseda… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Frailty is a multidimensional syndrome correlated to the loss of homeostasis
and increased vulnerability to stressors, which is associated with increase in the risk of …

[HTML][HTML] Frailty measurement and outcomes in interventional studies: protocol for a systematic review of randomised control trials

M Shears, D McGolrick, B Waters, M Jakab, JG Boyd… - BMJ open, 2017 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Frailty is associated with reduced functional capacity, decreased resistance to
stressors and is predictive of a range of adverse health outcomes, including dependency …

Frailty fantasia

JE Morley - Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2017 - jamda.com
Frailty has become the central feature of modern and future geriatrics. 1 Frailty represents
the situation where an older person deviates from normal aging-related intrinsic capacity so …

[PDF][PDF] Physical Activity and Nutrition INfluences In ageing (PANINI)

AC Whittaker, M Delledonne, T Finni, P Garagnani… - 2017 - pure-oai.bham.ac.uk
Current demographic trends indicate that by the year 2020, almost one in five of the
European population will be aged 65 years or over. Although life expectancy is increasing …