Frailty and multimorbidity: Two related yet different concepts

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• 作者：Patricia Villacampa-Ferná ; ndez^a ; ^{pavifer3@uv.es} ; Esperanza Navarro-Pardo^a ; ^{esperanza.navarro@uv.es} ; Juan J. Tarí ; n^b ; ^{Juan.J.Tarin@uv.es} ; Antonio Cano ; MD ; PhD^c ; ^d ; ^{Antonio.Cano@uv.es}
• 关键词：Ageing ; Frailty ; Non-communicable disease ; Chronic disease ; Multimorbidity ; Comorbidity
• 刊名：Maturitas
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：95
• 期：Complete
• 页码：31-35
• 全文大小：565 K
• 卷排序：95

文摘

Healthy-life expectancy is shorter than life expectancy. Frailty reflects vulnerability due to exhaustion of body systems. Multimorbidity defines a synergy of two or more different individual diseases. Both frailty and multimorbidity are predictors of disability and mortality.