The emir, Sheik Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sabah, is frail at 75, having just celebrated 25 years in power.
Some family members, noting that Payton was frail (at age 21/2, he was 22 pounds) and often sick, believe choking on the hot dog put an impossible strain on his body.
If they inserted questions about frailty in the medical exam, they could learn how many were frail at the study's start and how many developed the disease in the ensuing decade.
Both scenes, new and old, are barely more than music videos, and their link to the main narrative is frail at best, yet they radiate an honest levity that is wanting elsewhere, and Peters is alive — more so than the senior performers — to the fact that a preternatural forte doesn't need to be heavy going.
When adjusting the study sample to reflect the population using the NHATS-provided study weights, the percentage of our cohort that was frail at baseline was 15%.
In the unadjusted and adjusted analyses we were interested in the prevalence ratios at T1 and incidence rate ratios at each additional time point (T2-T4) for being a current non-driver among older adults who were frail at baseline.
In the overall group, 41.0 % were frail at baseline, 37.6 % frail at 6 months and 43.4 % frail at 12 months.
Among 122 subjects comprising 41 MCI, 67 mild and 14 moderate AD, 43.9, 35.8 and 57.1 % were frail at baseline respectively.
A comparison study of frail patients versus nonfrail patients undergoing PCI showed that one-fifth of older patients were frail at the time of PCI and possessed a greater comorbid burden, angiographic disease severity, and poorer health status than did the nonfrail adults.
At seventy, she is frail: "As age creeps on / she seeks for grace / Always to church / and in her place".
