The European Union Geriatric Medicine Society (EUGMS) Working Group on «Frailty in Older Persons»

Autor: Francesco Landi, D.Z.B. van Asselt, Jean-Pierre Baeyens, S Ariogul, A.J. Cruz-Jentoft, Bruno Vellas, Avan Aihie Sayer, Timo E. Strandberg, M Cankurtaran, Tommy Cederholm, G. Abellan Van Kan, Matteo Cesari, Antonio Cherubini, D Zekry, Justin Michel, Eva Topinkova, A. Curgunlu, Juergen M. Bauer
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: The Journal of frailtyaging. 2(3)
ISSN: 2260-1341
Popis: The concept of frailty was introduced in literature to help atclinically depicting the transition of a robust older individualinto a different clinical phenotype of risk (1-5). Frailty isgenerally described as a multisystemic impairment responsiblefor a state of increased vulnerability to endogenous andexogenous stressors (6, 7). This syndrome may represent thefirst step towards the evident and clinically relevant functionaldisability (a cornerstone outcome for geriatric medicine)8, andhas shown to be predictive of major negative health-relatedevents, including
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