In addition, to evaluate the frailty markers, nutrition (including weight and height), grip strength and gait speed were assessed and cognitive functioning tests were administrated [ 52- 56].
13 Aiming to evaluate the frailty distribution according to sex, the Chi-square test was applied, and its agewise distribution was analyzed by the Fisher's exact test.
Evaluating the frailty syndromes individually, the very elderly (>85 years) represent between 40%and50%0% of the spells coded for that syndrome, with rising trend.
*For each frailty index, the number of a specific item can be lower than the total number of patients available for assessment because not all 5 (CHS index) or 3 (SOF index) items need to be present for evaluating the frailty status (see text).
The present study aimed to describe the prevalence and related variables of frailty, and to evaluate the relationship between frailty, disability, and comorbidity in a large sample of Colombian, rural, community-dwelling elderly people.
Aim of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of frailty and to determine the extent that frailty predicts delirium, falls and mortality in hospitalized older patients.
The Groningen Frailty Index (GFI) was used in the BIOS to evaluate the level of frailty of the patient [28, 29, 30].
The goals of the present study are to evaluate the relationship between frailty and endothelial dysfunction in Brazilian predialysis patients with CKD, and to evaluate the impact of frailty on all-cause mortality and the need for renal replacement therapy (RRT).
The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of frailty in hospitalized older patients, as determined by the CHS and SOF indexes, and to determine the extent that frailty can predict delirium and falls during hospitalization, and mortality 6 months after discharge.
To examine the relationship between frailty as the accumulation of deficits and age, comparing this relationship in women and men. 2. To evaluate the relationship between frailty and mortality.
Thus, the goal of the current study was to evaluate the relationship between frailty and QOL in pre-dialysis CKD patients.
