Frailty, nutrition-related parameters, and mortality across the adult age spectrum

Frailty, nutrition-related parameters, and mortality across the adult age spectrum

Abstract Background Nutritional status and individual nutrients have been associated with frailty in older adults. The extent to which these associations hold in younger people, by type of malnutrition or grades of frailty, is unclear. Our objectives were to (1) evaluate the relationship between ind...

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Main Authors: Kulapong Jayanama, Olga Theou, Joanna M Blodgett, Leah Cahill, Kenneth Rockwood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-10-01
Series:BMC Medicine
Subjects:
Nutrition
Dietary intake
Frailty
Frailty index
Mortality
NHANES
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12916-018-1176-6

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