Frailty and the prediction of dependence and mortality in low- and middle-income countries: A 10/66 population-based cohort study

BMC Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Jotheeswaran, A T ^a,k   Bryce, Renata ^a   Prina, Matthew ^a   Acosta, Daisy ^b   Ferri, Cleusa P ^c,d   Guerra, Mariella ^e   Huang, Yueqin ^f   Rodriguez, Juan J Llibre ^g   Salas, Aquiles ^h   Sosa, Ana Luisa ⁱ   Williams, Joseph D ^j   Dewey, Michael E ^a   Acosta, Isaac ⁱ   Liu, Zhaorui ^f   Beard, John ^l   Prince, Martin ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena   (Dominican Republic)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d HOSPITAL ALEMÃO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^e Instituto de la Memoria y Desordenes Relacionados   (Peru)

^f PEKING UNIVERSITY SIXTH HOSPITAL   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HAVANA   (Cuba)

^h HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE CARACAS   (Venezuela)

ⁱ UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^j The Voluntary Health Services Chennai   (India)

^k PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^l WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

Aged; Developing countries; Disability; Epidemiology; Frailty; Geriatric assessment; Long term care; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADL DISABILITY; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHINA; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUBA; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; EXHAUSTION; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCOME; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEXICO; MORTALITY; PERU; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREVALENCE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; VENEZUELA; WALKING SPEED; WEIGHT REDUCTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISABLED PERSON; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; CHINA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; INDIA; LATIN AMERICA; MALE; MEXICO; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 85016035785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-015-0378-4     Document Type: Article

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