Sentence examples for frailty in this study from inspiring English sources

Frailty in this study was strongly associated with comorbidities, and frailty and comorbidity predicted disability.

The most frequently used frailty definition, Fried's phenotype, was not used to define frailty in this study due to the unavailability of necessary data.

The potential factors associated with frailty in this study were advanced age, female gender, presence of comorbidity, dependence in some basic ADL or IADL, depressive symptoms, cognitive impairment, and negative self-perception of health status.

However, given the similar prevalence findings in our study and previous studies, we may extrapolate that potential response or selection biases would not tend to lead to underestimation or over-estimation in the prevalence of frailty in this study.

Another point is that, we generally see patients with features of frailty after 70 75 years and the study population in the current study is relatively younger (enrollment >60 years, mean age 66 years) and may result in a lower rate of frailty in this study.

This effect is likely to be compounded by the increasing frailty observed in this study, and if these trends continue this estimate may need to be revised upward.

The observed differences and increase in frailty syndromes in this study (figure 4) may reflect improvements in coding practice within HES due to the introduction of Healthcare Resource Group HRGG V.4 introduced in April 2007) and Payment by Results (since April 2009).

This higher general level of ill health and frailty in the study population is in keeping with national and international trends for patients admitted to hospital with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Walking speed greater than 0.9 m/s ruled out frailty in the study sample.

Estimated frailty in the study population was 10.5% [95% CI: 8.9-12.3].

Frailty in that study was defined, in part, by slowness of gait and low exercise tolerance, both of which characterize lower-limb muscle weakness.