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Outcome-specific thresholds and clinically relevant changes in frailty: evidence from a population-based longitudinal cohort.
Age and ageing - 4 Sept 2026
Álvarez-Bustos Alejandro, Carnicero Jose Antonio, García-Aguirre Mikel, Caballero-Mora Maria Ángeles, Garcia-Garcia Francisco, Rodríguez-Mañas Leocadio
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The usefulness of assessing Frailty Phenotype is hampered by the limitations of classical tools in defining outcome-specific risk trajectories, stablishing its severity, monitoring longitudinal changes and quantifying the changes needed to modify the risk. OBJECTIVE: To assess the risk along the score range, defining outcome-specific thresholds, slopes of risk and degrees of severity and to determine...
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- Humans
- Frailty
- Female
- Frail Elderly
- Prospective Studies
- Longitudinal Studies
