Tag: Frailty

A 53-year bibliometric analysis of 1,003 publications found sustained growth in breast cancer and frailty research, with prominent attention to ...

For millions of older adults, the difference between an active retirement and a life-altering injury may come down to how ...

A Norwegian study of over 11,000 hospital admissions found that half of patients aged 80 and above were frail, with ...

Microbial communities shift with age in ways that influence cardiometabolic health, cognition, immunity, and frailty, and BMC Geriatrics has launched ...

A mixed methods study of 238 frail older cardiac patients identifies three kinesiophobia profiles using latent profile analysis and builds ...

Cognitive frailty is one of geriatric medicine's most tantalizing targets: a condition in which older adults live with both physical ...

A network meta-analysis of 61 randomized controlled trials reveals that elastic band resistance training is the most effective modality for ...

A secondary analysis of the TEAMS randomized controlled trial found that twelve weeks of resistance training to volitional failure improved ...

A seven-year study of over 14,000 Chinese adults finds that combining online and offline social activity is associated with slower ...

A study of 1,122 older adults in Shanghai finds that fewer remaining natural teeth are linked to higher frailty risk, ...

A first-of-its-kind Portuguese study of 234 adults with intellectual disabilities aged 45 and older finds that nearly half are frail, ...

A transcriptomic reprogramming screen has identified the RNA splicing factor SRSF1 as a conserved regulator of aging that rejuvenates aged ...

French researchers have developed and externally validated a 17-point score based on the standardised Geriatric Core Dataset that predicts six-, ...

A joint European task force of geriatricians and psychiatrists warns that fragmented physical and mental healthcare is shortening the lives ...

A nationwide analysis of 1.7 million trauma records finds that older cyclists injured in crashes have better outcomes than patients ...

A UK Biobank study of more than 21,000 cancer survivors links baseline frailty to a heightened risk of 28 of ...

A new commentary in the journal Aging proposes that measuring behavioral complexity, including movement and physiological rhythms, could provide early ...

An unsupervised machine learning analysis of 23 physical performance measures in 368 older adults identified three performance clusters that aligned ...

Researchers argue that the popular slogan of extending healthspan but not lifespan is scientifically incoherent and ethically untenable as a ...

A Finnish cohort study of 644 older men with hip fracture found that pre-fracture fecal incontinence independently predicted one-year mortality, ...