Correlates of frailty in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment

Age and Ageing

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 630-633

  Mhaoláin, Aine M Ní ^a   Gallagher, Damien ^a   Crosby, Lisa ^a   Ryan, Deirdre ^a   Lacey, Loretto ^b   Coen, Robert ^a   Bruce, Irene ^a   Walsh, James Bernard ^a   Cunningham, Conal ^a   Lawlor, Brian A ^a  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b Janssen Alzheimer Immunotherapy   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GENDER; HUMAN; IRELAND; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HAND STRENGTH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; IRELAND; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WALKING;

EID: 80051758381     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afr066     Document Type: Letter

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