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Frailty and the risk of cognitive impairment

Aging occurs as a series of small steps, first causing cellular damage and then affecting tissues and organs. This is also true in the brain. Frailty, a state of increased risk due to accelerated deficit accumulation, is robustly a risk factor for cognitive impairment. Community-based autopsy studie...

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Autores principales: Searle, Samuel D., Rockwood, Kenneth
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/PMC4523015/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26240611
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13195-015-0140-3