Counting deficits or diseases? The agreement between frailty and multimorbidity in subjects with cognitive disturbances.
Aging Clin Exp Res
; 32(1): 179-182, 2020 Jan.
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ABSTRACT
In the present study, we explored the relationship between multimorbidity and frailty in a population of older individuals with cognitive disturbances attending a memory clinic. All subjects consecutively attending the Memory Clinic of the Department of Human Neuroscience, "Sapienza" University of Rome, between January 2017 and April 2018 for a first neurological evaluation were considered for the present analysis. Multimorbidity was defined as the simultaneous presence of two or more diseases in the same individual. A Frailty Index was computed by considering 44 age-related, multidimensional health deficits. Overall, 185 subjects were recruited in the study. A condition of multimorbidity was detected in 87.6% of the sample, whereas only the 44.6% of the study population was considered as frail. A poor agreement was observed between multimorbidity and frailty. The present findings confirm that counting diseases or health deficits may provide discordant information concerning the risk profile of older subjects.
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Avaliação Geriátrica
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Fragilidade
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Multimorbidade
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Etiology_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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2020
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