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Multimorbidity Patterns, Frailty, and Survival in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences - 12 Jul 2019
Nguyen Quoc Dinh, Wu Chenkai, Odden Michelle C, Kim Dae Hyun
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Frailty and multimorbidity are independent prognostic factors for mortality, but their interaction has not been fully explored. We investigated the importance of multimorbidity patterns in older adults with the same level of frailty phenotype. METHODS: In a cohort of 7,197 community-dwelling adults aged 65 years and older, physical frailty status (robust, pre-frail, frail) was defined using shrinking,...
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