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Prevalence of frailty phenotypes and risk of mortality in a community-dwelling elderly cohort.
Age and ageing - 1 Jan 2013
Garre-Olmo Josep, Calvó-Perxas Laia, López-Pousa Secundino, de Gracia Blanco Manuel, Vilalta-Franch Joan
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OBJECTIVES: to determine the prevalence of three independent, disability-free and operationally defined frailty phenotypes and the associated risk of mortality in a community-dwelling older people cohort over 74 years of age. METHODS: observational, prospective and population-based design. Bio-psycho-social variables were assessed using a range of standardised instruments. The physical frailty phenotype (PFP),...
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