Validation of the FRAIL scale in Mexican elderly: results from the Mexican Health and Aging Study

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 901-908

  Díaz de León González, Enrique ^a   Gutiérrez Hermosillo, Hugo ^b   Martinez Beltran, Jesus Avilio ^a   Chavez, Juan Humberto Medina ^a   Palacios Corona, Rebeca ^a   Salinas Garza, Deborah Patricia ^a   Rodriguez Quintanilla, Karina Alejandra ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL SEGURO SOCIAL   (Mexico)

^b HOSPITAL DE ESPECIALIDADES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Elderly; Frailty; Hospitalizations; Mortality; M xico

Indexed keywords

ADL DISABILITY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FALLING; FATIGUE RESISTANCE AMBULATION ILLNESSES AND WEIGHT LOSS SCALE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEARING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEXICO; MORTALITY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; VALIDATION STUDY; VISION; AGING; COMORBIDITY; FATIGUE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; WALKING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COMORBIDITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WALKING;

EID: 84949512324     PISSN: 15940667     EISSN: 17208319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40520-015-0497-y     Document Type: Article

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