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The biology of aging and frailty.
Clinics in geriatric medicine - 1 Feb 2011
Fedarko Neal S
Abstract excerpt
In developing and validating the concept of frailty as a geriatric syndrome, it has been necessary to distinguish the clinical expression of frailty from normal age-related changes and other age-related disease pathologies. A framework for excluding potentially confounding disease and a working clinical tool to diagnose frailty have been provided. The associations between frailty and other pathophysiologies has...
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