Individuals who meet at least one of the criteria for physical frailty are at higher risk of also developing depression, a new Yale study finds. The findings — which also include insights into the ...

Frailty among men was associated with a higher risk of death from a heart attack compared to women, according to a February study published in The Lancet Regional Health - Europe.

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 ...

Frailty was significantly associated with an increased risk of malnutrition among older adults while greater masticatory (chewing) performance was associated with reduced risk, according to a February ...

University of Alberta provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Alberta provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. In the next 10 years, the number of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Analysis of medical data from around 1800 sixty-five year old residents of Kobe, a large Japanese city, has shown that at least 3% have possible sarcopenia (*1), revealing that the risks are higher in ...

Frailty was associated with higher risk of malnutrition, with an odds ratio of 2.47. This relationship appeared most pronounced among participants with chronic diseases, those with fewer than 20 teeth ...