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.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1-15 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Clinics in geriatric medicine |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 2011 |
Keywords
- Clinical phenotype
- Frailty
- Hazard ratio
- Latent class analysis
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geriatrics and Gerontology