Frailty in older adults

DH Kim, K Rockwood - New England Journal of Medicine, 2024 - Mass Medical Soc
Key Points Frailty in Older Adults Assessing frailty enables clinicians to predict the outcomes
and risks of health conditions, target the delivery of evidence-based interventions, and tailor …

The physical frailty syndrome as a transition from homeostatic symphony to cacophony

LP Fried, AA Cohen, QL Xue, J Walston… - Nature aging, 2021 - nature.com
Frailty in aging marks a state of decreased reserves resulting in increased vulnerability to
adverse outcomes when exposed to stressors. This Perspective synthesizes the evidence …

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 …

Muscle fatigue: general understanding and treatment

J Wan, Z Qin, P Wang, Y Sun, X Liu - Experimental & molecular …, 2017 - nature.com
Muscle fatigue is a common complaint in clinical practice. In humans, muscle fatigue can be
defined as exercise-induced decrease in the ability to produce force. Here, to provide a …

[HTML][HTML] Thinking outside the nucleus: Mitochondrial DNA copy number in health and disease

CA Castellani, RJ Longchamps, J Sun, E Guallar… - Mitochondrion, 2020 - Elsevier
Mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtDNA-CN) is a biomarker of mitochondrial function and
levels of mtDNA-CN have been reproducibly associated with overall mortality and a number …

Frailty biomarkers under the perspective of geroscience: a narrative review

RSSA Gonçalves, ÁCC Maciel, Y Rolland… - Ageing research …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cellular and molecular aging biomarkers might contribute to identify at-risk individuals for
frailty before overt clinical manifestations appear. Although studies on the associations of …

Association of mitochondrial DNA copy number with cardiovascular disease

FN Ashar, Y Zhang, RJ Longchamps, J Lane… - JAMA …, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Mitochondrial dysfunction is a core component of the aging process and may
play a key role in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Mitochondrial DNA copy number …

Risk of cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality in frail and pre-frail older adults: Results from a meta-analysis and exploratory meta-regression analysis

N Veronese, E Cereda, B Stubbs, M Solmi… - Ageing research …, 2017 - Elsevier
Frailty is common and associated with poorer outcomes in the elderly, but its role as
potential cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor requires clarification. We thus aimed to …

[HTML][HTML] Restoring the infected powerhouse: Mitochondrial quality control in sepsis

FML Chavez, LP Gartzke, FE van Beuningen, SE Wink… - Redox biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Sepsis is a dysregulated host response to an infection, characterized by organ failure. The
pathophysiology is complex and incompletely understood, but mitochondria appear to play a …

Mitochondrial health quality control: measurements and interpretation in the framework of predictive, preventive, and personalized medicine

L Koklesova, A Mazurakova, M Samec, E Kudela… - EPMA Journal, 2022 - Springer
Mitochondria are the “gatekeeper” in a wide range of cellular functions, signaling events, cell
homeostasis, proliferation, and apoptosis. Consequently, mitochondrial injury is linked to …