The accumulation of deficits approach to describe frailty.

The advancing age of the participants of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)-Potsdam study was the incentive to investigate frailty as a major parameter of ageing. The aim of this study was to develop a multidimensional tool to measure frailty in an ageing, free-l...

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Main Authors: Raskit Lachmann, Marta Stelmach-Mardas, Manuela M Bergmann, Wolfgang Bernigau, Daniela Weber, Tobias Pischon, Heiner Boeing
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223449

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