Tag: frailty
Air Pollutants Cause Frailty
Effects of air pollutants exposure on frailty risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis “Meta-analysis indicated that PM2.5聽exposure was significantly associated with frailty assessed by the frailty index… Moreover, solid fuel exposures were significantly associated with an increased risk of frailty assessed by the frailty phenotype … or the frailty index … Exposure to PM2.5聽and solid…
One More Reason to Keep Physically Fit: Frailty Precedes Dementia
聽Frailty trajectories preceding dementia: an individual-level analysis of four cohort studies in the United States and United Kingdom “This observational evidence suggests that frailty increases dementia risk independently of any reverse causality”.聽