Maturitas

Functional vulnerability beyond blood pressure: Intrinsic capacity impairment and cardiovascular risk stratification in three prospective aging cohorts

By Zhengqiu Zhang, Qiang Tu, Wanting Chen, Jingyuan Jiang

Cohort study of 13,807 peopleBiomarkers

Declared no competing interests

The paper

Zhengqiu Zhang, Qiang Tu, Wanting Chen, Jingyuan Jiang

Soochow University

Maturitas, 15 Aug 2026

doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2026.109089 PubMed 42612584

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