Frailty increased during the first year after the initiation of dialysis in patients with end-stage kidney disease. Pre-dialysis frailty was associated with an increased risk for hospitalisation, and ...

A study published in a recent issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons finds that scoring patients for frailty can accurately predict adverse surgical outcomes. Researchers scored ...

Procedure-specific mortality risk in octogenarians undergoing curative GI cancer resection: A contemporary U.S. analysis. HFRS = Hospital Frailty Risk Score from ICD-10 coding. Estimates are ...

Frailty was tied to a higher risk of future dementia in older adults. Trajectories rose more rapidly 4 to 9 years before dementia onset. The analysis included 30,000 participants in the U.S. and U.K.