Open AccessThe frailty index in Europeans: association with age and mortality
Author(s) -
Román RomeroOrtuño,
Rose Anne Kenny
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
age and ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1468-2834
pISSN - 0002-0729
DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afs051
Subject(s) - demography , medicine , confidence interval , logistic regression , frailty index , ageing , gerontology , age groups , linear regression , statistics , mathematics , sociology
the frailty index (FI) is an approach to the operationalisation of frailty based on accumulation of deficits. It has been less studied in Europeans.
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