Older adults are a highly heterogeneous group with variable health and functional life
courses. Frailty has received increasing scientific attention as a potential explanation of the …

Frailty is an important consequence of ageing, whereby frail patients are more likely to face
adverse outcomes, such as disability and death. Risk of frailty increases in people with poor …

Background Prevalence of frailty has been previously established in different Western
countries; however, the prevalence and the burden of in the aging populations of Saudi …

Background Studies addressing frailty are limited in the global south, including Ethiopia. We
estimated the prevalence of frailty and associated factors among older people living with HIV …

Introduction Multimorbidity is a health issue of increasing importance worldwide, and is likely
to become particularly problematic in low-income countries (LICs) as they undergo …

Measuring health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is critical to evaluate the burden of frailty in
the older population. This study explored the prevalence of frailty among Vietnamese older …

Background The frailty phenotype is defined by the presence of three from the following five
clinical features: weakness, slow walking speed, unintentional weight loss, exhaustion, and …

Purpose Coexistence of frailty and breast cancer (BC) is related to a higher risk of
hospitalization, mortality, and falls. Given the potential reversibility of frailty, investigating its …

Introduction Frailty has been studied among the old population due to its association with
negative outcomes. Presently there is no gold standard for measuring frailty, but several …

Objectives Multimorbidity is associated with mortality in high-income countries. Our objective
was to investigate the relationship between multimorbidity (≥ 2 of the following chronic …