The degree of frailty as a translational measure of health in aging

SE Howlett, AD Rutenberg, K Rockwood - Nature Aging, 2021 - nature.com
Frailty is a multiply determined, age-related state of increased risk for adverse health
outcomes. We review how the degree of frailty conditions the development of late-life …

Multisystem physiological perspective of human frailty and its modulation by physical activity

JA Taylor, PL Greenhaff, DB Bartlett… - Physiological …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
“Frailty” is a term used to refer to a state characterized by enhanced vulnerability to, and
impaired recovery from, stressors compared with a nonfrail state, which is increasingly …

Physical frailty: ICFSR international clinical practice guidelines for identification and management

E Dent, JE Morley, AJ Cruz-Jentoft… - The journal of nutrition …, 2019 - Springer
Objective The task force of the International Conference of Frailty and Sarcopenia Research
(ICFSR) developed these clinical practice guidelines to overview the current evidence-base …

Frailty index and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Chinese adults: a prospective cohort study

J Fan, C Yu, Y Guo, Z Bian, Z Sun, L Yang… - The Lancet Public …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background The fraily index is a useful proxy measure of accelerated biological ageing and
in estimating all-cause and cause-specific mortality in older individuals in European and US …

Management of frailty: opportunities, challenges, and future directions

E Dent, FC Martin, H Bergman, J Woo… - The Lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Frailty is a complex age-related clinical condition characterised by a decline in physiological
capacity across several organ systems, with a resultant increased susceptibility to stressors …

A genome‐wide association study of the frailty index highlights brain pathways in ageing

JL Atkins, J Jylhävä, NL Pedersen, PK Magnusson… - Aging cell, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Frailty is a common geriatric syndrome and strongly associated with disability, mortality and
hospitalization. Frailty is commonly measured using the frailty index (FI), based on the …

Gut microbiota, muscle mass and function in aging: a focus on physical frailty and sarcopenia

A Ticinesi, A Nouvenne, N Cerundolo, P Catania… - Nutrients, 2019 - mdpi.com
Human gut microbiota is able to influence the host physiology by regulating multiple
processes, including nutrient absorption, inflammation, oxidative stress, immune function …

Frailty is intertwined with heart failure: mechanisms, prevalence, prognosis, assessment, and management

A Pandey, D Kitzman, G Reeves - JACC: Heart Failure, 2019 - jacc.org
Frailty, a syndrome characterized by an exaggerated decline in function and reserve of
multiple physiological systems, is common in older patients with heart failure (HF) and is …

WHO working definition of vitality capacity for healthy longevity monitoring

I Bautmans, V Knoop, JA Thiyagarajan… - The lancet Healthy …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Intrinsic capacity, a crucial concept in healthy ageing, is defined by WHO as" the composite
of all the physical and mental capacities that an individual can draw on at any point in time" …

Frailty as a predictor of mortality among patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis

XM Zhang, J Jiao, J Cao, XP Huo, C Zhu, XJ Wu… - BMC geriatrics, 2021 - Springer
Background A large number of studies have explored the association between frailty and
mortality among COVID-19 patients, with inconsistent results. The aim of this meta-analysis …