Sentence examples for consider frailty from inspiring English sources
In this last case, we consider Frailty also to be associated with the Peritoneal dialysis vs. haemodialysis collider and with Death.
Interestingly, even in this longitudinal study, which did not consider frailty among the covariates, functional status and depression turned out to be determinants of QOL [ 42].
We were unable to consider frailty (which has been shown to be associated with CKD) or cognitive impairment both of which may influence patient capacity and outcome, or other outcomes such as quality of life (which might be more sensitive to some of our morbidities than mortality), this will be assessed in later follow up stages of this cohort [ 21– 23].
Considering frailty as a pathological continuum on which pre-frailty is a preceding condition, the number and types of depressive symptoms explaining these conditions also worsen in a continuous manner.
One approach considers frailty to be a decline in physical functioning.
The first one considered frailty as a single-dimensional construct based on physical functioning and on the biological/physiological state.
28 Thus, our findings would be consistent with previous findings and reinforce the importance of vitamin D when considering frailty.
While there is some controversy on the subject in the literature, each definition commonly considers frailty in terms of vulnerability.
One approach, proposed by Fried et al, considers frailty a distinct clinical syndrome not synonymous with either co morbidity or disability [ 8].
The other approach, proposed by Mitnitski and Rockwood [ 9], considers frailty as a continuum of accumulation of deficits (symptoms, signs, diseases, and disabilities) that are combined in a frailty index score, reflecting the proportion of potential deficits present in a person [ 10].
Considering frailty status and geriatric syndromes (including history of falls in the previous 90 days, impaired cognition, dependence in basic and instrumental ADL, and bladder incontinence), only the FI had a significant association with polypharmacy.
