"Frailty" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A state of increased vulnerability to stressors, following declines in function and reserves across multiple physiologic systems, characterized by MUSCLE WEAKNESS; FATIGUE; slowed motor performance; low physical activity; and unintentional weight loss.
| Descriptor ID |
D000073496
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C23.550.359
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Frailty" by people in Profiles.
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"Faith and a sunny day": Association of patient frailty with strain experienced by informal caregivers of older adults with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer. J Geriatr Oncol. 2024 11; 15(8):102060.
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Quantifying Frailty Requires a Conceptual Model Before a Statistical Model-Reply. JAMA Surg. 2022 11 01; 157(11):1065-1066.
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Rib Fracture Frailty Index: A risk stratification tool for geriatric patients with multiple rib fractures. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2021 12 01; 91(6):932-939.
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Fitting a shared frailty illness-death model to left-truncated semi-competing risks data to examine the impact of education level on incident dementia. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2021 01 11; 21(1):18.
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Association of Prediagnostic Frailty, Change in Frailty Status, and Mortality After Cancer Diagnosis in the Women's Health Initiative. JAMA Netw Open. 2020 09 01; 3(9):e2016747.
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Frailty in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Risk of Exacerbations and Hospitalizations. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis. 2020; 15:1967-1976.
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Frailty Prevalence and Association with Health-Related Quality of Life Impairment among Rural Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Vietnam. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 10 12; 16(20).
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Evaluation of two frailty indices, with practical application in a vaccine clinical trial. Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2019; 15(12):2960-2968.
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Estimating effectiveness in HIV prevention trials with a Bayesian hierarchical compound Poisson frailty model. Stat Med. 2016 07 10; 35(15):2609-34.