Samia Yusuf Omar, who was lithe to the point of frailty, sprinted her way to momentary fame at the Beijing Olympics, in 2008.
Light-skinned and thin almost to the point of frailty, Issak affects a groomed mustache rather than a beard, and favors a sidearm discreetly holstered beneath his plaid vest; a gold watch hangs loosely from his small wrist.
In addition to quantifying admission frailty, obtaining a historical point estimate of frailty by retrospectively administering the CFS through friends and family regarding function in the recent past could create an estimate of premorbid health trajectory.
The study addresses very old (80+) elderly persons that are on the point of developing frailty ("pre-frail").
Using the established cutoff point of a frailty index score equal to or higher than 0.14, of the 228 patients, 57 were excluded from the sample because they had a score lower than 0.14, 171 had a score equal to or higher than 0.14, and 16 refused to complete the baseline questionnaire.
Similarly, Sanders et al. [ 22] have also reported an association between excess weight, assessed through BMI, and frailty, assessed by a 10-point scale of frailty.
Hand grip strength, exhaustion, physical activity, unintended weight loss, and walking speed were used to create a five-point index of frailty symptoms.
The Groningen Frailty Index (GFI) was used in the BIOS to evaluate the level of frailty of the patient [28, 29, 30].
A GFI score of four or greater is considered the cut-off point for frailty [ 11].
In particular, he noted, consumption, investment and government expenditure all slowed in the quarter, pointing to "frailty in the domestic demand side of the economy".
Taken together, these data point towards a possible association of frailty with inflammation and endothelial dysfunction, both also common in patients with CKD.
