The association between obesity and the frailty syndrome in older women: The women's health and aging studies

Article Abstract:

A study on community-dwelling women, aged between 70 and 79, and on determining whether obesity is associated with the frail phenotype, is presented. If so, whether comorbid conditions or inflammatory markers explain this association.

Obesity, Aged women, Elderly women

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Mild cognitive impairment and 10-year trajectories of disability in the Iowa established populations for epidemiologic studies of the elderly cohort

Article Abstract:

The standards for diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment are applied to Iowa established persons to study the preponderance and trajectories of disability for cognitively integral participants.

Government domestic functions, Iowa, Diagnosis, Disability, Disabilities, Health policy

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Identifying frailty in hospitalized older adults with significant coronary artery disease

Article Abstract:

A study establishing the levels of physical weakness in hospitalized patients with coronary artery disease, is presented.

Coronary heart disease, Cardiac patients

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