Currently, however, there is no consensus on which measure to use. Therefore, we examined whether a Frailty Index (FI), based on ICPC-coded primary care data, and the Groningen Frailty Indicator ...

Out of 1580 eligible patients, we were able to calculate an FI score for 1549 patients (98%), and 663 patients (42%) returned the GFI questionnaire. Thus, we had 638 patients (40.4%) with complete ...

Frailty assessed by a 10-item index from comprehensive geriatric assessment (FI-CGA-10) versus oncologist-assessed performance status (PS) in older adults with gastrointestinal (GI) cancer. A ...

Summary statistics of the frailty index (FI, N=175 226) and falling risk (N=451 179) were from the two latest published GWAS datasets on FI and falling risk. Results Using the inverse-variance ...

(K) The life span of C57BL/6 mice for the gLacZ control and gTop2b groups. (A) Frailty index (FI) scores for C57BL/6 mice in the gLacZ and gTop2b groups were recorded at 10 to 26 months of age, with ...

Among the total systemic sclerosis cohort, 14% of individuals were categorized as frail and 53% as prefrail, with frailty status linked to an increased risk for mortality.

Researchers also used a frailty index with 49 different indicators to measure each person’s level of frailty. Of participants, 32.8% had high frailty scores. Also, 33.5% had low live microbe ...

Ageing and frailty are closely related, but they’re not the same thing. Let’s break down the difference between the two. On a biological level, ageing is the result of the build-up of cellular ...

The neck epitomizes the dual nature of the human condition, the ways in which beauty and frailty are often entwined, two sides of the same coin in our biology, in our relationships – and ...

Feb. 9 (UPI) --While many expressed outrage over the frail appearance of Israeli hostages released Saturday, human rights groups raised concerns about the lack of similar indignation over the ...

John Swinney has finally accepted there is a crisis in Scotland's NHS. But will stationing 'frailty teams' at the front door of Scotland's A&E departments solve the problem? The term 'frailty ...