[HTML][HTML] Frailty, inequality and resilience

M Hale, S Shah, A Clegg - Clinical Medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
Frailty is a common condition in later life in which minor stressors may result in major
changes in health. While the biological mechanisms of frailty are increasingly understood …

Frailty prevalence using Frailty Index, associated factors and level of agreement among frailty tools in a cohort of Japanese older adults

BA Martins, R Visvanathan, H Barrie, CH Huang… - Archives of gerontology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Frailty prevalence defined by the deficit accumulation model (Frailty Index) has limited
exploration in a Japanese population. The objective of this paper is to investigate the …

Recurrent measurement of frailty is important for mortality prediction: findings from the North West Adelaide Health Study

MQ Thompson, O Theou, GR Tucker… - Journal of the …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
OBJECTIVES Frailty places individuals at greater risk of adverse health outcomes. However,
it is a dynamic condition and may not always lead to decline. Our objective was to determine …

Geospatial modelling of the prevalence and changing distribution of frailty in Australia–2011 to 2027

D Taylor, H Barrie, J Lange, MQ Thompson… - Experimental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background and objectives Detailed information about the current and future geographic
distribution of Australia's frail population provides critical evidence to inform policy, resource …

Symptomatic hypercalcemia in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism is associated with severity of disease, polypharmacy, and comorbidity

C Aresta, E Passeri, S Corbetta - International Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Current primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) clinical presentation is asymptomatic in more
than 90% of patients, while symptoms concern osteoporosis and rarely kidney stones. Here …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing frailty in Chinese nursing home older adults: a comparison between the FRAIL-NH scale and frailty index

F Ge, M Liu, S Tang, Y Lu, SL Szanton - The Journal of nutrition, health and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objective (1) To establish appropriate FRAIL-NH cutoff points in nursing homes in Mainland
China;(2) To compare the FRAIL-NH scale and Frailty Index in assessing frailty prevalence …

Cocreation of a digital patient health hub to enhance education and person-centred integrated care post hip fracture: a mixed-methods study protocol

L Yadav, TK Gill, A Taylor, U Jasper, J De Young… - BMJ open, 2019 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Older people with hip fractures often require long-term care and a crucial aspect
is the provision of quality health information to patients and their carers to support continuity …

Accessing the discriminatory performance of FRAIL-NH in two-class and three-class frailty and examining its agreement with the frailty index among nursing home …

F Ge, W Liu, M Liu, S Tang, Y Lu, T Hou - BMC geriatrics, 2019 - Springer
Background FRAIL-NH has been commonly used to assess frailty in nursing home residents
and validated in many ethnic populations; however, it has not been validated in mainland …

Systematische Übersicht und Metaanalyse des Zusammenhangs zwischen Rauchen und der Inzidenz von Gebrechlichkeit

S Amiri, S Behnezhad - neuropsychiatrie, 2019 - Springer
Background and objective Cigarette smoking is one of the main causes of health problems
in the world and can also lead to an increased risk of frailty. Our goal is to perform a …