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Gender-specific Association of Frailty, Polypharmacy, and the Five-year Mortality Risk: A Real-world Retrospective Study

2022-08-03

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<h4>Background: </h4> With higher age, frailty escalates the risk of falls, unexpected physical dysfunction, hospitalization, and mortality. Polypharmacy in the older population is a major challenge that not only increases medical costs, but also may worsen the risk of hospitalization and death. This study aimed to investigate the sex difference in the association of polypharmacy and frailty with mortality . <h4>M...

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eb46432f-8cbe-57ed-bc6a-66947a51d86c
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10.21203/rs.3.rs-1889661/v1
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