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Dissecting the Racial/Ethnic Disparity in Frailty in a Nationally Representative Cohort Study with Respect to Health, Income, and Measurement.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences - 1 Jan 2021
Usher Therri, Buta Brian, Thorpe Roland J, Huang Jin, Samuel Laura J, Kasper Judith D, Bandeen-Roche Karen
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Racial/ethnic frailty prevalence disparities have been documented. Better elucidating how these operate may inform interventions to eliminate them. We aimed to determine whether physical frailty phenotype (PFP) prevalence disparities (i) are explained by health aspects, (ii) vary by income, or (iii) differ in degree across individual PFP criteria. METHODS: Data came from the 2011 National Health and...
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