The accumulation of deficits approach to describe frailty

The advancing age of the participants of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)-Potsdam study was the incentive to investigate frailty as a major parameter of ageing. The aim of this study was to develop a multidimensional tool to measure frailty in an ageing, free-l...

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Published in:	PloS one Vol. 14; no. 10; p. e0223449
Main Authors:	Lachmann, Raskit, Stelmach-Mardas, Marta, Bergmann, Manuela M., Bernigau, Wolfgang, Weber, Daniela, Pischon, Tobias, Boeing, Heiner
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Public Library of Science 15.10.2019 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects:	Accumulation Age Age Distribution Aged Aged, 80 and over Aging Aging (Biology) Bioindicators Biology and Life Sciences Biomarkers C-reactive protein Cancer Cancer research Disability Domains Drinking (Alcoholic beverages) Epidemiology Exercise Female Frail Elderly Frailty Genotype & phenotype Health Health aspects Health promotion Humans Longitudinal studies Male Mathematical analysis Medicine and Health Sciences Mortality Nutrition Older people Oxygen consumption People and Places Physical fitness Polynomials Population studies Questionnaires Regression analysis Smoking Germany
ISSN:	1932-6203, 1932-6203
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