Associations between a laboratory frailty index and adverse health outcomes across age and sex

Abstract Objective Early frailty may be captured by a frailty index (FI) based entirely on vital signs and laboratory tests. Our aim was to examine associations between a laboratory‐based FI (FI‐Lab) and adverse health outcomes, and investigate how this changed with age. Methods Up to 8988 individua...

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Main Authors: Joanna M. Blodgett, Olga Theou, Arnold Mitnitski, Susan E. Howlett, Kenneth Rockwood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-03-01
Series:Aging Medicine
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/agm2.12055