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Prevalence of frailty and contributory factors in three Chinese populations with different socioeconomic and healthcare characteristics

BACKGROUND: Frailty predicts dependence and mortality, and is an important health indicator for aging populations. Comparing frailty prevalence between populations of the same ethnicity but different socioeconomic, lifestyle, health and social care systems, and environmental characteristics would ad...

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Autores principales: Woo, Jean, Zheng, Zheng, Leung, Jason, Chan, Piu
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/PMC4675032/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26652647
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-015-0160-7