The degree of frailty as a translational measure of health in aging

SE Howlett, AD Rutenberg, K Rockwood - Nature Aging, 2021 - nature.com
Frailty is a multiply determined, age-related state of increased risk for adverse health
outcomes. We review how the degree of frailty conditions the development of late-life …

[HTML][HTML] Application of mesenchymal stem cell therapy for aging frailty: from mechanisms to therapeutics

Y Zhu, J Ge, C Huang, H Liu, H Jiang - Theranostics, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Aging frailty is a complex geriatric syndrome that becomes more prevalent with advancing
age. It constitutes a major health problem due to frequent adverse outcomes. Frailty is …

Frailty index and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Chinese adults: a prospective cohort study

J Fan, C Yu, Y Guo, Z Bian, Z Sun, L Yang… - The Lancet Public …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background The fraily index is a useful proxy measure of accelerated biological ageing and
in estimating all-cause and cause-specific mortality in older individuals in European and US …

A genome‐wide association study of the frailty index highlights brain pathways in ageing

JL Atkins, J Jylhävä, NL Pedersen, PK Magnusson… - Aging cell, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Frailty is a common geriatric syndrome and strongly associated with disability, mortality and
hospitalization. Frailty is commonly measured using the frailty index (FI), based on the …

Longitudinal trajectories, correlations and mortality associations of nine biological ages across 20-years follow-up

X Li, A Ploner, Y Wang, PKE Magnusson, C Reynolds… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Biological age measurements (BAs) assess aging-related physiological change and predict
health risks among individuals of the same chronological age (CA). Multiple BAs have been …

Measuring frailty in younger populations: a rapid review of evidence

GF Spiers, TP Kunonga, A Hall, F Beyer, E Boulton… - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives Frailty is typically assessed in older populations. Identifying frailty in adults aged
under 60 years may also have value, if it supports the delivery of timely care. We sought to …

The joint association of sarcopenia and frailty with incidence and mortality health outcomes: a prospective study

F Petermann-Rocha, SR Gray, JP Pell, FK Ho… - Clinical Nutrition, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Sarcopenia and frailty are strongly associated with disease incidence and
mortality. However, there is limited evidence regarding their joint association with health …

Frailty and comorbidity in predicting community COVID‐19 mortality in the UK Biobank: the effect of sampling

JKL Mak, R Kuja‐Halkola, Y Wang… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background/Objectives Frailty has been linked to increased risk of COVID‐19
mortality, but evidence is mainly limited to hospitalized older individuals. This study aimed to …

Unraveling the metabolic underpinnings of frailty using multicohort observational and Mendelian randomization analyses

JKL Mak, L Kananen, C Qin, R Kuja‐Halkola… - Aging cell, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying metabolic biomarkers of frailty, an age‐related state of physiological decline, is
important for understanding its metabolic underpinnings and developing preventive …

Frailty, sarcopenia, cachexia and malnutrition as comorbid conditions and their associations with mortality: a prospective study from UK Biobank

F Petermann-Rocha, JP Pell… - Journal of Public …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Frailty, sarcopenia, cachexia and malnutrition are clinical conditions that share
similar diagnostic criteria. This study aimed to investigate the clustering and mortality risk …