Relationship between frailty and mortality, hospitalization, and cardiovascular diseases in diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Abstract Background In patients with diabetes, death and cardiovascular diseases are attributed to classical risk factors such as hypertension, dyslipidemia, and smoking habit, whereas these events are attributed to frailty in the remaining patients. In this meta-analysis, we examined the relationsh...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Cardiovascular Diabetology |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12933-019-0885-2 |