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Initial manifestations of frailty criteria and the development of frailty phenotype in the Women's Health and Aging Study II.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences - 1 Sept 2008
Xue Qian-Li, Bandeen-Roche Karen, Varadhan Ravi, Zhou Jing, Fried Linda P
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BACKGROUND: Understanding points of onset of the frailty syndrome is vital to early identification of at-risk individuals and to targeting intervention efforts to those components that are first affected, when reversal may be most possible. This study aims to characterize natural history by which commonly used frailty criteria manifest and to assess whether the rate of progression to frailty depends on initial...
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