Sentence examples for another frailty from inspiring English sources

Apart from the FI, another frailty screening instrument that has shown good criterion and construct validity is the Frailty Phenotype [ 42].

46, 47 The Edmonton Frailty Scale (EFS) is another frailty assessment tool with ten domains, namely cognition, general health status (two questionnaires), functional independence, social support, medication use, nutrition, mood, continence, and functional performance, with two of the domains involving performance-based items.

The problem with the 1st order model was that the factors do not necessarily need to be correlated to one another for frailty to occur (see Additional file 1 to compare the models).

One acknowledges the whiff of death in another's frailties and vulnerabilities.

To put it another way, human frailty helped BP's executives underestimate the chance of a low-probability, high-cost event.

Not visually gruesome by prevailing standards, "Frailty," another low-budget film, becomes psychologically tortuous when Mr. Paxton's character forces his disobedient older son, played by 13-year-old Matthew O'Leary, to dig a dungeon in the back yard, where he will be imprisoned.

The men who suffer a hip fracture may represent another type of frailty and propensity to fall.

The problem with this measure is the use of 'unweighted' variables that assume that deficits such as 'cancer' and 'arthritis' are of equal importance to one another in indexing frailty.

A recent cross-sectional survey of 475 adults 70 years of age and older in Mexico, which used modified CHS criteria and added cognitive impairment as another component of frailty, found that cognitive impairment and low physical activity are the main contributing factors of the frailty phenotype to disability [ 21].

Yet another cardinal sign of frailty is weight loss.

As a 42-year-old black man, currently with The Associated Press, in the early stages of a career in journalism, and aspiring to be a reporter on a major national desk, I was hurt to read that the human frailty of another journalist overwhelmed his integrity and ethics, bringing shame on us all (front page, May 11).