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Assessing Global Frailty Scores: Development of a Global Burden of Disease-Frailty Index (GBD-FI)

Frailty is an independent age-associated predictor of morbidity and mortality. Despite this, many countries lack population estimates with large heterogeneity between studies. No population-based standardised metric for frailty is available. We applied the deficit accumulation model of frailty to cr...

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Autores principales: O’Donovan, Mark, Sezgin, Duygu, Kabir, Zubair, Liew, Aaron, O’Caoimh, Rónán
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7460080/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32781756
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165695