Contribution of Frailty to Multimorbidity Patterns and Trajectories: Longitudinal Dynamic Cohort Study of Aging People

• Main Authors: Lucía A Carrasco-Ribelles (Author), Margarita Cabrera-Bean (Author), Marc Danés-Castells (Author), Edurne Zabaleta- (Author), Albert Roso-Llorach (Author), Concepción Violán (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundMultimorbidity and frailty are characteristics of aging that need individualized evaluation, and there is a 2-way causal relationship between them. Thus, considering frailty in analyses of multimorbidity is important for tailoring social and health care to the specific needs of older peopl...