Assessing Global Frailty Scores: Development of a Global Burden of Disease-Frailty Index (GBD-FI)
Assessing Global Frailty Scores: Development of a Global Burden of Disease-Frailty Index (GBD-FI)
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Basel: MDPI AG
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Frailty is an independent age-associated predictor of morbidity and mortality. Despite this, many countries lack population estimates with large heterogeneity between studies. No population-based standardised metric for frailty is available. We applied the deficit accumulation model of frailty to create a frailty index (FI) using population-level e...
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Assessing Global Frailty Scores: Development of a Global Burden of Disease-Frailty Index (GBD-FI)
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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_7460080
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_7460080
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1660-4601,1661-7827
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1660-4601
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10.3390/ijerph17165695
