The frailty index is a predictor of cause-specific mortality independent of familial effects from midlife onwards: a large cohort study

Background Frailty index (FI) is a well-established predictor of all-cause mortality, but less is known for cause-specific mortality and whether familial effects influence the associations. Middle-aged individuals are also understudied for the association between FI and mortality. Furthermore, the p...

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Published in:	BMC medicine Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 94 - 10
Main Authors:	Li, Xia, Ploner, Alexander, Karlsson, Ida K., Liu, Xingrong, Magnusson, Patrik K. E., Pedersen, Nancy L., Hägg, Sara, Jylhävä, Juulia
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London BioMed Central 15.05.2019 BioMed Central Ltd Springer Nature B.V BMC
Subjects:	Adult Age Aged Aged, 80 and over Aging - physiology Attenuation Attributable fraction Biomedicine Cancer Cardiovascular diseases Cardiovascular Diseases - mortality Cause of Death Cohort analysis Cohort Studies Familial effect Family Health - statistics & numerical data Fatalities Female Follow-Up Studies Frailty Frailty - diagnosis Frailty - etiology Frailty - mortality Frailty index Gender differences Health aspects Health risk assessment Health Status Indicators Humans Life span Male Medicine Medicine & Public Health Men Middle Aged Middle aged persons Mortality Older people Patient outcomes Prognosis Research Article Respiratory tract diseases Risk analysis Risk Factors Time dependence Time-varying effect Twins Attributable fraction Frailty index Time-varying effect Mortality Familial effect
ISSN:	1741-7015, 1741-7015
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