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Analysis of frailty and survival from late middle age in the Beijing Longitudinal Study of Aging

BACKGROUND: Frailty in individuals can be operationalized as the accumulation of health deficits, for which several trends have been observed in Western countries. Less is known about deficit accumulation in China, the country with the world's largest number of older adults. METHODS: This study...

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Autores principales: Shi, Jing, Song, Xiaowei, Yu, Pulin, Tang, Zhe, Mitnitski, Arnold, Fang, Xianghua, Rockwood, Kenneth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3239314/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21507234
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-11-17