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ReviewFrontiers in physiology2017

Is It Time to Begin a Public Campaign Concerning Frailty and Pre-frailty? A Review Article.

Jerzy Sacha, Magdalena Sacha, Jacek Soboń, Zbigniew Borysiuk, Piotr Feusette

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Review in Frontiers in physiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

56 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  11. Intensity-Dependent Effects of a Six-Week Balance Exercise Program in Elderly Women.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018
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  13. Patient selection for complex, high-risk indicated percutaneous coronary intervention procedures: an overview.European heart journal supplements : journal of the European Society of Cardiology · 2026
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  14. Metabolic syndrome duration and risk of frailty among midlife women: the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jerzy SachaFaculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy, Opole University of TechnologyOpole, Poland.
Magdalena SachaOutpatient Cardiology ClinicNysa, Poland.
Jacek SobońFaculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy, Opole University of TechnologyOpole, Poland.
Zbigniew BorysiukFaculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy, Opole University of TechnologyOpole, Poland.
Piotr FeusetteDepartment of Cardiology, University Hospital of the University of OpoleOpole, Poland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Frailty is a state that encompasses losses in physical, psychological or social domains. Therefore, frail people demonstrate a reduced potential to manage external stressors and to respond to life incidents. Consequently, such persons are prone to various adverse consequences such as falls, cognitive decline, infections, hospitalization, disability, institutionalization, and death. Pre-frailty is a condition predisposing and usually preceding the frailty state. Early detection of frailty (i.e., pre-frailty) may present an opportunity to introduce effective management to improve outcomes. Exercise training appears to be the basis of such management in addition to periodic monitoring of food intake and body weight. However, various nutritional supplements and other probable interventions, such as treatment with vitamin D or androgen, require further investigation. Notably, many societies are not conscious of frailty as a health problem. In fact, people generally do not realize that they can change this unfavorable trajectory to senility. As populations age, it is reasonable to begin treating frailty similarly to other population-affecting disorders (e.g., obesity, diabetes or cardiovascular diseases) and implement appropriate preventative measures. Social campaigns should inform societies about age-related frailty and pre-frailty and suggest appropriate lifestyles to avoid or delay these conditions. In this article, we review current information concerning therapeutic interventions in frailty and pre-frailty and discuss whether a greater public awareness of such conditions and some preventative and therapeutic measures may decrease their prevalence.

Indexed as

cognitive frailtyexhaustionfrailtylow physical activitypre-frailtysarcopeniaweaknessweight loss

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PMID28744225
PMCPMC5504234

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