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Prevalence and factors associated with frailty in hospitalized older patients

BACKGROUND: Frailty is a multidimensional syndrome that leads to an increase of an age-related disorder of several physiological systems, and cognitive abilities decline. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of frailty among older persons in Belgium and we examined the factors associ...

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Autores principales: Hammami, Sonia, Zarrouk, Amira, Piron, Cecile, Almas, Ioana, Sakly, Nabil, Latteur, Veronique
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7168944/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32306905
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-020-01545-4