Frailty and mortality among dialysis patients

Abstract Frailty is a clinical state in which there is an increase in the individual’s vulnerability to developing increased dependency and/or mortality when exposed to a stressor. Since the mean age of dialysis patients is increasing worldwide, frailty has recently come to be considered one of the...

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Main Authors: Kosaku Nitta, Norio Hanafusa, Ken Tsuchiya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-10-01
Series:Renal Replacement Therapy
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41100-017-0122-y