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Development and validation of a frailty index for use in the osteoarthritis initiative.
Age and ageing - 1 Jun 2024
O'Brien Myles W, Maxwell Selena P, Moyer Rebecca, Rockwood Kenneth, Theou Olga
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BACKGROUND: The Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) evaluates the development and progression of osteoarthritis. Frailty captures the heterogeneity in aging. Use of this resource-intensive dataset to answer aging-related research questions could be enhanced by a frailty measure. OBJECTIVE: To: (i) develop a deficit accumulation frailty index (FI) for the OAI; (ii) examine its relationship with age and compare between...
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