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Frailty linked most to death in a Chinese cohort aged 45 and up
The modeled death rate was about 0.16 per person-year with frailty alone versus 0.07 with neither frailty nor diabetes.The modeled death rate was about 0.16 per person-year with frailty alone versus 0.07 with neither frailty nor diabetes.
Preprint: cohort · 16,658 peoplePopulations
Who was studied16,658 Chinese adults aged 45 and older, nine years
What changedThe modeled death rate was higher with frailty alone: about 0.16 per person-year versus 0.07 with neither condition
The catchIncluding existing frailty or diabetes cases shaped estimated transitions from frailty to diabetes