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Comparison of the Simplified sWHI and the Standard CHS Frailty Phenotypes for Prediction of Mortality, Incident Falls, and Hip Fractures in Older Women.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences - 1 Oct 2017
Zaslavsky Oleg, Zelber-Sagi Shira, LaCroix Andrea Z, Brunner Robert L, Wallace Robert B, Cochrane Barbara B, Woods Nancy F
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BACKGROUND: We compared the simplified Women's Health Initiative (sWHI) and the standard Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) frailty phenotypes in predicting falls, hip fracture, and death in older women. METHODS: Participants are from the WHI Clinical Trial. CHS frailty criteria included weight loss, exhaustion, weakness, slowness, and low physical activity. The sWHI frailty score used two items from the RAND-36...
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