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The Role of Obesity in Frailty Incidence: The San Antonio Longitudinal Study of Aging

Background: Although initially conceptualized as a wasting syndrome, obesity has been associated with frailty in prior studies. The goal of this study was to examine the associations of obesity and waist circumference with frailty and determine whether they predict incident frailty in an ethnically...

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Autores principales: Cortes, Tiffany, Wang, Chen-pin, Hazuda, Helen, Espinoza, Sara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8681787/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.3026