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The Frailty Syndrome: Definition and Natural History
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Abstract
This article reviews the current state of knowledge regarding the epidemiology of
frailty by focusing on 6 specific areas: (1) clinical definitions of frailty, (2)
evidence of frailty as a medical syndrome, (3) prevalence and incidence of frailty
by age, gender, race, and ethnicity, (4) transitions between discrete frailty states,
(5) natural history of manifestations of frailty criteria, and (6) behavior modifications
as precursors to the development of clinical frailty.
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