Age, by itself, tells us remarkably little about a person’s physiologic reserve, resilience, or ability to recover from acute ...

Older adults with rheumatoid arthritis have a higher prevalence of frailty, largely driven by clinical and psychosocial factors.

In the inaugural issue of the journal Nature Aging a research team led by aging expert Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH, dean of Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, synthesizes converging ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Being frail" may not sound like that big of a deal—maybe you even assume it's kind of inevitable as you get older. But frailty is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . DESTIN, Fla. — Rheumatologists are uniquely positioned to define and manage sarcopenia and frailty, according to ...

Frailty in CKD was associated with significantly higher odds of cognitive impairment (OR 3.13), and the signal persisted after sensitivity analyses excluding extreme effects and MMSE-based studies.

Despite the evidence on risk factors for frailty, and the substantial progress that has been made in frailty awareness, the biological mechanisms underlying its development are still far from ...

Can pre-frailty and frailty predict the risk for cardiovascular events like myocardial infarction or stroke? According to new study findings, frailty in older adults is a dynamic state that often ...

Aging experts synthesize converging evidence that the aging-related pathophysiology underpinning the clinical presentation of phenotypic frailty is a state of lower functioning due to severe ...