Sentence examples for a higher frailty from inspiring English sources

Patients with a lower frailty score had a higher overall survival rate (91 % on CC and 83 % to hospital discharge) compared to those with a higher frailty score (70 % on CC and 51%% to hospital discharge).

One can image that reduced physical abilities (i.e. a higher frailty state) may cause people to stay at home more often, leading to a more restricted network.

A higher frailty index indicates increasing frailty and a threshold of 0.25 has been proposed as the demarcation between 'fitness' and 'frailty' in community-dwelling older people [ 6, 9].

In the Hispanic Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE), among 777 Hispanic Americans aged 65 or older, those who ever smoked were significantly more likely to have a higher frailty status at follow-up than those who never smoked [ 17].

AKI patients with higher frailty had a higher mortality rate as expected, and the corresponding analysis would therefore lead to higher adjusted HRs for death when these patients were compared with the non-AKI patients, especially among inpatients after AKI-dialysis.

Higher scores indicate higher frailty levels and an increased need for integrated care [ 12].

When ζ > 0, the two transition times are positively associated; higher frailty will result for instance in a higher risk of discharge and a higher risk of death; while ζ < 0 implies a negative association.

One could assume that patients with very low BMI (<18.5) would also have a worse survival prognosis, because very low BMI may indicate higher frailty and malnutrition at diagnosis.

For example, frailty increases with age as deficits accumulate at an average rate of three percent per year, women have higher frailty than men at all ages (but show better survival at any given level of frailty), and frailty is more robustly predictive of mortality than chronological age [ 44, 54].

Stress of greater magnitude produced higher frailty variance in the young-treated flies.

The present study shows that hospitalized patients were more likely to have higher frailty scores.