The Impact of Frailty on the Risk of Conversion from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer’s Disease: Evidences from a 5-Year Observational Study

The Impact of Frailty on the Risk of Conversion from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer’s Disease: Evidences from a 5-Year Observational Study

The frailty construct has increasingly been adopted in the field of cognitive disorders. The aim of the present study was to measure frailty in a cohort of individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and to explore whether frailty measures may consent to predict the risk of conversion to dement...

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Main Authors: Alessandro Trebbastoni, Marco Canevelli, Fabrizia D’Antonio, Letizia Imbriano, Livia Podda, Lidia Rendace, Alessandra Campanelli, Valentina Celano, Giuseppe Bruno, Carlo de Lena
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Medicine
Subjects:
mild cognitive impairment
Alzheimer’s disease
dementia
frailty
aging
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmed.2017.00178/full

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