Frailty progression was associated with fewer days alive at home (DAH), regardless of age or frailty level at baseline, a new study shows. Compared with people with frailty regression, people with ...

Frailty risk in stroke survivors may be much higher than earlier reports suggest, according to new research using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), the country’s ...

Getting old doesn't have to mean getting frail. A landmark trial suggests stem cells can reverse the physical decline of ageing ...

A layperson might think of “frail” as simply a synonym for “weak” or “fragile.” But in the medical field, frailty is a specific term, meaning – due to factors including inflammation and hormone shifts ...

In a groundbreaking study, scientists have mapped the most detailed genetic blueprint yet of frailty – the age-related decline in resilience that affects around 40% of people aged 65 and above, ...

We’re learning that frailty can quietly arrive decades before old age, with some people in their 30s or 40s unknowingly in a pre-frail state. There are surprising ways to stay strong – and it’s not al ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Frailty is hard to define and hard to distinguish from the effects of illness, injury, and medical interventions, but the frailty of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) can have ...

Frailty is common among older patients undergoing PCI in the United States, and the more severe it is, the greater the likelihood of complications and of dying in the hospital, data from the CathPCI ...

Demographics, tumor characteristics, and survival in inflammatory breast cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2015 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text ...