Associations between the SHARE frailty phenotype and common frailty characteristics: evidence from a large Danish population study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Frailty is a major clinical geriatric syndrome associated with serious adverse events including functional disability, falls, hospitalisation, increased morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to study associations between a frailty phenotype and frailty characteristics well known from the literature.

Design

Registry-based cross-sectional study.

Setting

The target population consists of inhabitants above the age of 50 living in the Danish municipalities of Lolland and Guldborgsund. Excluded are incapacitated people, inhabitants unable to understand Danish or English and inhabitants without a permanent residence.

Participants

7327 individuals aged 50+ years were included.

Outcome measures

We examined associations between the frailty

SUBMITTER: Jacobsen KK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6797251 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature