ArticleSalud publica de Mexico2015
Frailty among Mexican community-dwelling elderly: a story told 11 years later. The Mexican Health and Aging Study.
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- Association of frailty and mortality risk in community-dwelling older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 59 international prospective cohort studies.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
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- Prevalence of Frailty in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.PloS one · 2016Pooled it
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- Low gait speed is better than frailty and sarcopenia at identifying the risk of disability in older adults.Age and ageing · 2025Article
- Psychophysiological effects of a supervised home-based resistance band exercise program in pre-frail older patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a randomized controlled trial.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- OPG and TNFR1 as Potential Biomarkers of Inflammation in Older Adults with Acute COVID-19 and Indicators of Frailty in Post-COVID-19: A Pilot Study.Journal of inflammation research · 2025Article
- Mexican Health and Aging Study Biomarker and Genetic Data Profile.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2024Article
- Association between frailty and activities of daily living disability in older adults residing in a high-altitude Peruvian Andean community: the Aunqui-Andes study.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Hypoglycaemic therapy in frail older people with type 2 diabetes mellitus-a choice determined by metabolic phenotype.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2022Review
- The effect of sex and physical frailty on incident disability after 2 years among community-dwelling older adults: KFACS study.BMC geriatrics · 2022Article
- Is slowness a better discriminator of disability than frailty in older adults?Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2021Article
- The Association of Perceived Neighborhood Walkability and Environmental Pollution With Frailty Among Community-dwelling Older Adults in Korean Rural Areas: A Cross-sectional Study.Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi · 2019Article
- Prevalence and determinants of frailty in the absence of disability among older population: a cross sectional study from rural communities in Nepal.BMC geriatrics · 2019Article
- Disability, quality of life and all-cause mortality in older Mexican adults: association with multimorbidity and frailty.BMC geriatrics · 2018Article
- Frailty and diabetes among Mexican American older adults.Annals of epidemiology · 2018Article
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- Aging in Mexico: Population Trends and Emerging Issues.The Gerontologist · 2017Article
- Frequency of frailty and its association with cognitive status and survival in older Chileans.Clinical interventions in aging · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo describe the characteristics and prognosis of subjects classified as frail in a large sample of Mexican community-dwelling elderly. MATERIALS AND
methodsAn eleven-year longitudinal study of 5 644 old adults participating in the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS). Frailty was defined by meeting at least three of the following criteria: weight loss, weakness, exhaustion, slow walking speed and low physical activity. The main outcomes were incident disability and death. Multiple covariates were used to test the prognostic value of frailty.
resultsThirty-seven percent of participants (n= 2 102) met the frailty criteria. Frail participants were significantly older, female, less educated, with more chronic disease, lower income, and poorer self-reported health status, in comparison with their non-frail counterparts. Frailty was a predictor both for disability activities of daily living and for mortality.
conclusionAfter a follow-up of more than ten years, the phenotype of frailty was a predictor for adverse health-related outcomes, including ADL disability and death.
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