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Associations between a laboratory frailty index and adverse health outcomes across age and sex

OBJECTIVE: Early frailty may be captured by a frailty index (FI) based entirely on vital signs and laboratory tests. Our aim was to examine associations between a laboratory‐based FI (FI‐Lab) and adverse health outcomes, and investigate how this changed with age. METHODS: Up to 8988 individuals aged...

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Autores principales: Blodgett, Joanna M., Theou, Olga, Mitnitski, Arnold, Howlett, Susan E., Rockwood, Kenneth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6880698/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31942508
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/agm2.12055