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Prevalence and correlates of frailty among older adults: findings from the German health interview and examination survey

BACKGROUND: Despite having the third highest proportion of people aged 60 years and older in the world, Germany has been recently reported as having the lowest prevalence of frailty of 15 European countries. The objective of the study is to describe the prevalence of frailty in a large nationwide po...

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Autores principales: Buttery, Amanda K, Busch, Markus A, Gaertner, Beate, Scheidt-Nave, Christa, Fuchs, Judith
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4357063/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25879568
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-015-0022-3