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Evaluation of frailty and influencing factors in old people in hospital institution: Evidence for a phenotype of frailty.
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- Frailty in older adults: A systematic review of risk factors and early intervention pathways.Intractable & rare diseases research · 2025Review
- Dietary intake of live microbes and its association with frailty in older adults: a NHANES analysis (1999-2018).BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Correlates of frailty in older female cancer survivors.Journal of geriatric oncology · 2024Article
- Association between chronic pain and cognitive frailty among middle-aged and elderly individuals: evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Article
- Frailty predicts knee pain trajectory over 9 years: results from the Osteoarthritis Initiative.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2023Article
- Development and internal and external validation of a nomogram model for frailty risk among hospitalised older people using comprehensive geriatric assessment data.BMC geriatrics · 2023Article
- Association of Intrinsic Capacity with Frailty, Physical Fitness and Adverse Health Outcomes in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.The Journal of frailty & aging · 2023Article
- Associations of poor sleep quality, chronic pain and depressive symptoms with frailty in older patients: is there a sex difference?BMC geriatrics · 2022Article
- Association between Age-Friendliness of Communities and Frailty among Older Adults: A Multilevel Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Factors influencing the stages of frailty among Korean older adults focusing on objective and subjective social isolation.BMC geriatrics · 2022Article
- Prevalence and risk factors of preoperative frailty in Chinese elderly inpatients with gastric and colorectal cancer undergoing surgery: a single-center cross-sectional study using the Groningen Frailty Indicator.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2022Article
- Prevalence and determinants of frailty in older adult patients with chronic coronary syndrome: a cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2021Article
- The Evolutionary Stage of Cognitive Frailty and Its Changing Characteristics in Old Adults.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2021Article
- Associations Between Intellectual and Social Activities With Frailty Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults in China: A Prospective Cohort Study.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- Association between ambulatory blood pressure variability and frailty among older hypertensive patients.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2020Article
- Medication exposure and frailty in older community-dwelling patients: a cross-sectional study.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2020Article
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Abstract
We assessed the frailty status of inpatients and analyzed the factors influencing frailty status to explore the reasons for frailty and identify feasible intervention strategies.A total of 1494 geriatric patients aged ≥60 years were recruited as subjects. All patients were hospitalized between September 2014 and August 2015 in the internal medicine units of 3 hospitals in Chongqing and Zunyi in the southwestern area of China. Patients' frailty status was evaluated using the Phenotype of Frailty scale, via face-to-face interviews coupled with physical examinations using simple equipment.Of the 1494 cases, 1400 (93.71%) were eligible for analysis. Participants' mean age was 75.52 ± 9.28 years. The overall prevalence of frailty was 18.0%, and was higher for frail females (9.4%) than males (8.6%). Increasing age and body mass index, low income (<1000 Ren Min Bi for per month), poor self-rated health, cognitive impairment, depression, polypharmacy (≥5 medications), disability, and a history of fall in the past 1 year were independently significantly correlated with frailty (P < .05 for each comparison).Numerous factors were associated with frailty. As treatment for frailty is focused on prevention in this study, intervention strategies should target a comprehensive list of physiological and psychological aspects of the older people.
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