Socioeconomic inequalities in frailty and frailty components among community-dwelling older citizens.

So far, it has not yet been studied whether socioeconomic status is associated with distinct frailty components and for which frailty component this association is the strongest. We aimed to examine the association between socioeconomic status and frailty and frailty components. In addition we asses...

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Main Authors: Carmen B Franse, Amy van Grieken, Li Qin, René J F Melis, Judith A C Rietjens, Hein Raat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5679620?pdf=render