ArticleBMC geriatrics2020
Prevalence and factors associated with frailty in hospitalized older patients.
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- Applying the Bradford Hill Criteria to Assess the Independent Causal Roles of Aging and Medication in Frailty Progression: A Systematic Review.Drugs & aging · 2026Pooled it
- Challenges in Identifying Biomarkers of Frailty Syndrome: A Systematic Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Pooled it
- Impact of frailty on postoperative complications in older adults after hip fracture: a systematic review of observational studies.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Pooled it
- The Impact of Frailty on Adverse Outcomes in Geriatric Hip Fracture Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2022Pooled it
- Latent classes of frailty and their association with intrinsic capacity inolder cancer survivors: A study under the healthy aging paradigm.Global health & medicine · 2026Article
- Prevalence and factors of frailty among community-dwelling older adults: a multimorbidity perspective.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Cognitive Decline in Hospitalized Older Adults: A Scoping Review.Psychogeriatrics : the official journal of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society · 2025Article
- Association between preoperative frailty to adverse postoperative outcomes in older people undergoing elective spinal surgery: a prospective cohort study.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Novel Electronic Health Record Strategies to Identify Frailty Among Hospitalized Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions.Journal of general internal medicine · 2025Article
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- The relationship between psychological distress and frailty in stroke patients: the mediating effect of depression.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Assessing the Impact of Frailty Interventions on Older Patients With Frailty.Current therapeutic research, clinical and experimental · 2025Article
- Evaluation of the effects of thyroid functions on frailty in geriatric patients using the Edmonton, SOF and FRAIL Scales.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
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- An integrative systematic review of nurses' involvement in medication deprescription in long-term healthcare settings for older people.Therapeutic advances in drug safety · 2024Review
- Prevalence of frailty and associated factors in older adults seeking care at Swedish emergency departments.BMC geriatrics · 2023Article
- Comprehensive, continuous, and compulsory monitoring of frailty in elderly.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 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
- Nomogram model for predicting frailty of patients with hematologic malignancies - A cross-sectional survey.Asia-Pacific journal of oncology nursing · 2023Article
- Frailty and pain in an acute private hospital: an observational point prevalence study.Scientific reports · 2023Observational
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Abstract
backgroundFrailty is a multidimensional syndrome that leads to an increase of an age-related disorder of several physiological systems, and cognitive abilities decline. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of frailty among older persons in Belgium and we examined the factors associated with frailty with a principal focus en cognitive, dietary status, and inflammatory parameters.
methodsA total of 124 participants (90 women, 34 men; age: mean ± SD: 85.9 ± 5.5 years) were studied, recruited from the Geriatrics department, Belgium. Nutritional, cognitive status and physical activity were assessed using Mini Mental State Examination score (MMSE), Mini Nutritional Assessment score (MNA), and Katz score, respectively. Frailty syndrome was evaluated using the modified Short Emergency Geriatric Assessment (SEGA) score. Medication and medical history were recorded. Analyzed biochemical parameters included C-reactive protein (CRP), complete blood count, blood creatinine, vitamin D level, and serum protein electrophoresis. According to SEGA score, participants were divided into non-frail (n = 19), frail (n = 25) and severely frail patients (n = 80).
resultsThe SEGA score was inversely correlated with MMSE, MNA and Katz score. SEGA. score was negatively correlated to albumin levels (r = - 0.30; p < 0.001) and positively correlated to CRP, polypharmacy and age (r = 0.28, r = 0.37, r = 0.33 and p < 0.01 respectively). Logistic regression showed a strong association between frailty, Katz score, dementia, polypharmacy and living in nursing home.
conclusionOur results provide useful information for understanding mechanisms of frailty. This will help to develop preventive strategies for the elderly at the pre-frailty stage.
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