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FRAGILITE MULTI-DOMAINE [1 record]

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Record 1 2024-10-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Medicine, Hygiene and Health
  • Sociology of Old Age
CONT

Frailty, as defined by the accumulation of health and functional problems (i.e., deficit accumulation frailty), is associated with morbidity and mortality because of a greater vulnerability to stressors and is considered a marker of biological, rather than chronological, age.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médecine générale, hygiène et santé
  • Sociologie de la vieillesse
CONT

[Un] modèle [de la fragilité,] appelé «fragilité multidomaine»[,] est basé sur l'accumulation de déficits dans des domaines variés (et variables).

Spanish

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