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Frailty still matters to health and survival in centenarians: the case of China

BACKGROUND: Frailty indicates accumulated vulnerability of adverse health outcomes in later life. Its robustness in predicting dependent living, falls, comorbidity, disability, health change, mortality, and health care utilization at older ages is well-documented. However, almost no studies have eve...

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Autores principales: Gu, Danan, Feng, Qiushi
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/PMC4669603/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26634246
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-015-0159-0