Potential contribution of medications to frailty.

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

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Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Prevalence and Associated Factors of Frailty in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2025
   Pooled it
2. The relationship between frailty and polypharmacy in older people: A systematic review.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2018
   Pooled it
3. Number of medications and polypharmacy are associated with frailty in older adults: results from the Midlife in the United States study.Frontiers in public health · 2023
   Article
4. Research on the frailty status and adverse outcomes of elderly patients with multimorbidity.BMC geriatrics · 2022
   Article
5. Prevalence and impact of potentially inappropriate medication on community-dwelling older adults.Biomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud · 2021
   Observational
6. Editorial: To Drug or Not to Drug: The Geriatrician Dilemma of Polypharmacy.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2020
   Article
7. Frailty, polypharmacy, and potentially inappropriate medications in old people: findings in a representative sample of the French population.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2017
   Article
8. Oral anticoagulants in older adults with atrial fibrillation.Journal of thrombosis and thrombolysis · 2013
   Review

Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Measurement of organ structure and function enhances understanding of the physiological basis of frailty: the Cardiovascular Health Study.2011

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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