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Correlation of Sarcopenia With Modified Frailty Index as a Predictor of Outcome in Critically Ill Elderly Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study

Introduction: Frailty phenotype represents weight loss, decreased functional and physical capacity and activity, falls, slow gait, and memory impairment. Sarcopenia is a generalized and progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass, strength, and function, which occurs due to primary effects of aging and...

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Autores principales: Bhurchandi, Shreerang, Kumar, Sunil, Agrawal, Sachin, Acharya, Sourya, Jain, Shraddha, Talwar, Dhruv, Lomte, Sunayana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8616666/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34849305
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19065