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 …

The conceptual and practical definitions of frailty in older adults: a systematic review

A Sobhani, R Fadayevatan, F Sharifi… - Journal of Diabetes & …, 2021 - Springer
Purpose This study aimed to review and extract all publications containing concepts related
to definitions of frailty and categorize them. Methods A total of six electronic databases …

'Frailty as an adjective rather than a diagnosis'—identification of frailty in primary care: a qualitative interview study

A Seeley, M Glogowska, G Hayward - Age and Ageing, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Introduction In 2017, NHS England introduced proactive identification of frailty into
the General Practitioners (GP) contract. There is currently little information as to how this …

Identifying frail patients by using electronic health records in primary care: current status and future directions

J Luo, X Liao, C Zou, Q Zhao, Y Yao, X Fang… - Frontiers in Public …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
With the rapidly aging population, frailty, characterized by an increased risk of adverse
outcomes, has become a major public health problem globally. Several frailty guidelines or …

New insights into healthy ageing, inflammageing and frailty using metabolomics

G Abdullah, A Akpan, MM Phelan, HL Wright - Frontiers in Aging, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Human ageing is a normal process and does not necessarily result in the development of
frailty. A mix of genetic, environmental, dietary, and lifestyle factors can have an impact on …

Correlations, agreement and utility of frailty instruments in prevalent haemodialysis patients: baseline cohort data from the FITNESS study

BM Anderson, M Qasim, G Correa, F Evison… - Clinical kidney …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Frailty is associated with poor outcomes for haemodialysis patients, but its
prevalence is uncertain due to heterogeneous definitions. The aim of this study was to …

Integrating the clinical frailty scale with emergency department triage systems for elder patients: A prospective study

CJ Ng, LT Chien, CH Huang, CH Chaou… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background This prospective study investigated whether integrating the Clinical Frailty
Scale (CFS) with a triage system would improve triage for older adult emergency department …

The prevalence of frailty and its relationship with sociodemographic factors, regional healthcare disparities, and healthcare utilization in the aging population across …

S Singhal, S Singh, GC Dewangan, S Dey… - Aging …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To estimate frailty prevalence and its relationship with the socio‐economic and
regional factors and health care outcomes. Methods In this study, participants from the …

Comparison of the clinical frailty score (CFS) to the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA) risk calculator in all patients undergoing emergency laparotomy

S Palaniappan, RL Soiza, S Duffy, SJ Moug… - Colorectal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim There is evolving evidence that preoperative frailty predicts outcomes of older adults
undergoing emergency laparotomy (EmLap). We assessed frailty scoring in an emergency …

[HTML][HTML] Unhealthful plant-based diet associates with frailty risk predominantly in men with low income from the UK Biobank cohort

K Schorr, M Rodriguez-Girondo, N van den Berg… - The Journal of nutrition …, 2025 - Elsevier
Objective Plant-based diets (PBD) are generally promoted as beneficial for health. However,
whether this is also the case at older ages, when energy deficits, muscle loss and frailty …