A study comparing biological aging indicators found that Rockwood Frailty Index was a stronger predictor of cardiovascular disease (CVD) than leukocyte telomere length in adults without prior CVD. The ...

Published in BMC Medicine, the study analyzed data from over 150,000 participants and found the strongest associations in ...

Frailty accelerated four to nine years before dementia started, and it was positively linked with the risk for dementia, according to four studies conducted in the United States and the United Kingdom ...

A new study explores the relationship between frailty, the proportion of health deficits present in an individual, as measured by the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics Frailty Index ...

The laboratory-based Frailty Index showed strong predictive ability for mortality and relapse in patients with carbapenemase-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infections. “Unlike traditional ...

Frailty was tied to a higher risk of future dementia in older adults. Trajectories rose more rapidly 4 to 9 years before dementia onset. The analysis included 30,000 participants in the U.S. and U.K.

Frailty entails a reduced resilience to adversity. A recent PLoS ONE study used a period of austerity public spending in England to note the changes in frailty in individuals aged 50 years and above.

Frailty begins to accelerate 4 to 9 years before dementia onset and may help identify at-risk populations for prevention strategies. Study: Frailty Trajectories Preceding Dementia in the US and UK.