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ReviewMaturitas2020

Global frailty: The role of ethnicity, migration and socioeconomic factors.

Zeinab Majid, Carly Welch, Justine Davies, Thomas Jackson

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Review in Maturitas, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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52citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

52 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 85 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. The prevalence of frailty among breast cancer patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2022
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  7. Visceral Fat Obesity Correlates with Frailty in Middle-Aged and Older Adults.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Zeinab MajidInstitute of Inflammation and Ageing, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK; University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Mindelsohn Way, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2GW, UK. Electronic address: z.majid@bham.ac.uk.
Carly WelchInstitute of Inflammation and Ageing, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK; University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Mindelsohn Way, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2GW, UK; Medical Research Council - Versus Arthritis Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research, University of Birmingham and University of Nottingham, UK.
Justine DaviesInstitute of Applied Health Research, Murray Learning Centre, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK; Medical Research Council/Wits University Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Thomas JacksonInstitute of Inflammation and Ageing, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK; University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Mindelsohn Way, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2GW, UK; Medical Research Council - Versus Arthritis Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research, University of Birmingham and University of Nottingham, UK.
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust · GBUniversity of Birmingham · GBUniversity of Nottingham · GBUniversity of the Witwatersrand · ZA

Funding

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PREDICTORS OF PHYSICAL AND COGNITIVE FUNCTIONP01AG041710 · NIA · HARVARD UNIVERSITY D/B/A HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI Julia Katherine Rohr · 2013 to 2026
$37.3M
NIA NIH HHS P01 AG041710
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Frailty is an important consequence of ageing, whereby frail patients are more likely to face adverse outcomes, such as disability and death. Risk of frailty increases in people with poor biological health, and has been shown in many ethnicities and countries. In economically developed countries, 10% of older adults are living with frailty. Ethnic minorities in the West face significant health inequalities. However, little is known about frailty prevalence and the nature of frailty in different ethnic groups. This has implications for healthcare planning and delivery, especially screening and the development of interventions. Global frailty prevalence is variable: low- to middle-income countries demonstrate higher rates of frailty than high-income countries, but available evidence is low. Little is known about the characteristics of these differences. However, female sex, lower economic status, lower education levels, and multimorbidity are identified risk factors. Ethnic minority migrants in economically developed countries demonstrate higher rates of frailty than white indigenous older people and are more likely to be frail when younger. Similar patterns are also seen in indigenous ethnic minority marginalised groups in economically developed countries such as the US, Australia and New Zealand, who have a higher prevalence of frailty than the majority white population. Frailty trajectories between ethnic minority migrants and white indigenous groups in high-income countries converge in the 'oldest old' age group, with little or no difference in prevalence. Frailty risk can be attenuated in migrants with improvements in integration, citizenship status, and access to healthcare. Ethnicity may play some role in frailty pathways, but, so far, the evidence suggests frailty is a manifestation of lifetime environmental exposure to adversity and risk accumulation.

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Emigrants and ImmigrantsEthnicityFrailtyGlobal HealthHumansMinority GroupsSocioeconomic FactorsEthnicityFrailtyGlobal ageingMigration

Identifiers

PMID32747038
PMCPMC8054560
OpenAlexW3028103030

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Registered trials

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