Editorial: Frailty, Comorbidity, and COPD.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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Who cites it

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

1. Systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence, trajectories, and clinical outcomes for frailty in COPD.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2023
   Pooled it
2. Tailored or adapted interventions for adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and at least one other long-term condition: a mixed methods review.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021
   Pooled it
3. Frailty Is a Predictor of Disability, Hospitalization and Mortality in Older Adults with COPD: A Longitudinal Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026
   Article
4. Health outcomes in older adults with COPD: the role of clinical and psychosocial factors in post-acute geriatric rehabilitation.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2026
   Article
5. Correlation between self-management, psychological cognitive impairment, and quality of life in elderly chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients.World journal of psychiatry · 2025
   Article
6. Association of frailty with clinical outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A retrospective longitudinal cohort study.Heliyon · 2023
   Article
7. Daily living activities, exercise capacity, cognition, and balance in COPD patients with and without frailty.Irish journal of medical science · 2022
   Article
8. Is it possible to reverse frailty in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2020
   Review
9. Editorial: COVID-19 - The Long Road to Recovery.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2020
   Article
10. Editorial: Frailty and Seasonality.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2020
    Article
11. Improving Exercise-Based Interventions for People Living with Both COPD and Frailty: A Realist Review.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2020
    Review
12. Frailty in medically complex individuals with chronic HIV.AIDS (London, England) · 2019
    Observational
13. Variation in body mass index in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2019
    Article
14. Editorial: Vitamin D: Does the Emperor Have No Clothes?The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2019
    Article

Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

4 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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