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For any individual, the Frailty Index is the number of deficits present, divided by the number of deficits counted, here 40: hence someone with 6 deficits would have a Frailty Index of 0.15.
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But this Hampshire batting side has a frailty about it - only Nic Pothas averages more than 40 in the championship, and he offered some resistance yesterday, making a patient 44 from 123 balls before a rare lapse in concentration saw him drag on Darren Pattinson.
31 patients had a frailty score of 5 or above (77 % male, mean age 66 years) and 24 patients had a frailty score of 4 or less (50%% male, mean age of 62 years).
Thus, a patent with 15 deficits has a frailty index score of 0.30 (15/50).
The value of the individual variable that corresponded to 0.2 on the interim frailty index, i.e. the value of the variable at which, on average people had a frailty score of 0.2 or higher, was denoted as that deficit's cut-point.
Clinics with a high volume tent to have a lower frailty (clinics 7, 31) but this is not true for all of them.
In the Hispanic Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE), among 777 Hispanic Americans aged 65 or older, those who ever smoked were significantly more likely to have a higher frailty status at follow-up than those who never smoked [ 17].
In prior work we have calculated a frailty index for persons across the lifespan, starting at age 15 years [ 13].
Although some reports have evaluated a Frailty index based on deficit accumulation in patients admitted to acute care [ 9, 12, 13] each is a study of fewer than 800 people from a single hospital site.
Regarding the influence of age and renal function on frailty, the severity of CKD might have a greater impact on frailty than age does.
Eight Belles had a structural frailty — whether by bloodlines, training or chemistry.
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