Frailty

Women, African-Americans, And People With Low-Income Comprise Most Affected Population

Published in Women's Health Weekly, May 3rd, 2001

Unexplained weight loss, exhaustion, a weak grip, slow walking speed, and low energy - the hallmarks of frailty - are most likely to strike women, African Americans, the less educated and the poor, according to a U.S. study of more than 5,000 older adults.

Results of the multicenter study, the first to study frailty in depth, were published in the March 2001 issue of the Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences.

"As physicians, we've always thought that we knew how to identify a frail person, yet there's been no agreement on how to do that and no standard definition for the condition," says Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH, director of Johns Hopkins'...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2001-05-03)

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