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Tall stature in coronary heart disease patients is associated with decreased risk of frailty in late life.

Geriatrics & gerontology international - 1 Sept 2017

Lutski Miriam, Tanne David, Goldbourt Uri

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AIM: We investigated the possible inverse association between tall stature and subsequent late-life frailty. METHODS: A subset of surviving men with coronary heart disease (n = 1232; mean age at baseline 57.0 ± 6.0 years), who previously participated in the Bezafibrate Infarction Prevention clinical trial (1990-1997) were reassessed during 2004-2008 (T1; n = 558) and 2011-2013 (T2; n = 351) at the mean ages of...

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PMID: 27539907
DOI: 10.1111/ggi.12855

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