Walking speed is a useful marker of frailty in older persons - In reply

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 326-

  Odden, Michelle C ^a   Peralta, Carmen A ^b,c   Covinsky, Kenneth E ^b,c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEALTH STATUS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MORTALITY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; SPHYGMOMANOMETRY; SURVIVAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WALKING SPEED; FEMALE; FITNESS; MALE; WALKING;

FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PHYSICAL FITNESS; WALKING;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874923032     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

References (2)

1. Odden MC, Peralta CA, Haan MN, Covinsky KE. Rethinking the association of high blood pressure with mortality in elderly adults: the impact of frailty. Arch Intern Med. 2012;172 (15): 1162-1168.
2. Beckett NS, Peters R, Fletcher AE, et al HYVET Study Group. Treatment of hypertension in patients 80 years of age or older. N Engl J Med. 2008;358 (18): 1887-1898.