Understanding risk in the oldest old: Frailty and the metabolic syndrome in a chinese community sample aged 90+ years

Conclusions In the oldest old, frailty was a significant risk for near-term death, regardless of the metabolic syndrome. Even using age-adjusted models, the epidemiology of late life illness may need to account for frailty routinely.
Source: The Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging - Category: Nutrition Source Type: research