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Sensory and motor correlates of frailty: dissociation between frailty phenotype and frailty index.
BMC geriatrics - 15 Sept 2022
Beier Florian, Löffler Martin, Nees Frauke, Hausner Lucrezia, Frölich Lutz, Flor Herta
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BACKGROUND: Frailty has been associated with a decline in sensory and motor function. However, given that different frailty measures were shown to overlap but also differ in their diagnostic properties, sensory and motor correlates of frailty might be different depending on the operationalization of frailty. Our objective was to identify sensory and motor determinants of frailty and compare the results between...
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