Browsing Medical Gerontology (Scholarly Publications) by Subject "Longitudinal studies"
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The Importance of Age in the Prediction of Mortality by a Frailty Index: A Machine Learning Approach in the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
(2021)The quantification of biological age in humans is an important scientific endeavor in the face of ageing populations. The frailty index (FI) methodology is based on the accumulation of health deficits and captures variations ... -
Is phenotypical prefrailty all the same? A longitudinal investigation of two prefrailty subtypes in TILDA
(2019)Background: Fried's frailty phenotype is defined by five criteria: exhaustion, unexplained weight loss, weakness, slowness and low physical activity. Prefrailty (PF) meets one or two criteria. PF is of interest as a target ...