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Frailty among rural elderly adults

BACKGROUND: This study aimed to estimate the prevalence and associated factors related to frailty, by Fried criteria, in the elderly population in a rural area in the Andes Mountains, and to analyze the relationship of these with comorbidity and disability. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was under...

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Autores principales: Curcio, Carmen-Lucia, Henao, Guadalupe-Maria, Gomez, Fernando
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3898393/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24405584
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-14-2