Open AccessA limit to frailty in very old, community-dwelling people: a secondary analysis of the Chinese longitudinal health and longevity study
Author(s) -
Stephanie L. Bennett,
Xiaowei Song,
Arnold Mitnitski,
Kenneth Rockwood
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/afs180
Subject(s) - medicine , demography , longevity , confidence interval , logistic regression , china , longitudinal study , gerontology , mortality rate , pathology , sociology , political science , law
it has been observed that a frailty index (FI) is limited by the value of 0.7. Whether this holds in countries with higher mortality rates is not known.
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