Frailty progression was associated with fewer days alive at home (DAH), regardless of age or frailty level at baseline, a new study shows. Compared with people with frailty regression, people with ...

Frailty risk in stroke survivors may be much higher than earlier reports suggest, according to new research using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), the country’s ...

A layperson might think of “frail” as simply a synonym for “weak” or “fragile.” But in the medical field, frailty is a specific term, meaning – due to factors including inflammation and hormone shifts ...

Social frailty in patients with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) does not directly impact anxiety or depression but influences these conditions indirectly through ...

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Frailty is common among older patients undergoing PCI in the United States, and the more severe it is, the greater the likelihood of complications and of dying in the hospital, data from the CathPCI ...

Individuals who meet at least one of the criteria for physical frailty are at higher risk of also developing depression, a new Yale study finds. The findings — which also include insights into the ...

Physical frailty is strongly associated with an increased dementia risk in older adults, and according to researchers, the link may be causal. In an analysis of nearly half a million UK Biobank ...

The Johns Hopkins Hope at Hopkins Clinic: Supporting the comprehensive needs of individuals with metastatic breast cancer. Planning an enhanced telemedicine program for prostate cancer care: A ...

Frailty is not a single disease with a single cause: it arises from the effects of chronic inflammation, muscle loss, ...