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The frailty index in Europeans — association with age and mortality
Author(s)	Roman Romero-Ortuno, Rose Anne Kenny
Journal title	Age and Ageing, vol 41, no 5, September 2012
Pages	pp 684-689
Source	http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/ http://www.bgs.org.uk/
Keywords	Ill health ; Chronic illness ; Ageing process ; Death rate [statistics] ; Older men ; Older women ; Longitudinal surveys ; Europe.
Annotation	The frailty index (FI) is an approach to the operationalisation of frailty based on accumulation of deficits. It has been less studied in Europeans. The objective of the present study was to construct sex-specific FIs from a large sample of Europeans and study their associations with age and mortality. The study was based on the the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). A total of 16,217 females and 13,688 males aged 50 and above took part. Mortality data were collected between 2005 and 2006 (mean follow-up: 2.4 years). Results showed that in both sexes there was a significant non-linear association between age and the FI. Overall, the FI was a much stronger predictor of mortality than age, even after adjusting for the latter. (JL).
Accession Number	CPA-121005004 A
Classmark	CH: CI: BG: S5: BC: BD: 3J: 74
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