Impact of frailty and metabolic syndrome on the incidence of loss of independence in community-dwelling older Japanese: the Kusatsu-town study - Kitamura A, Shinkai S, Taniguchi Y, Amano H, Seino S, Yokoyama Y, Nishi M, Fujiwara Y.

OBJECTIVEs 　To investigate the relationship between frailty, metabolic syndrome (MetS), and loss of independence leading to the onset of disability or death among community-dwelling older Japanese.METHODS　Between 2002 and 2011, we conducted a 7-...
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