Frailty, Disability and Physical Exercise in the Aging Process and in Chronic Kidney Disease

• Main Authors: Antonio Greco (Author), Giulia Paroni (Author), Davide Seripa (Author), Filomena Addante (Author), Mariangela P. Dagostino (Author), Filippo Aucella (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Karger Publishers, 2014-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Frailty in the elderly is a state of vulnerability to poor resolution of homoeostasis after a stressor event and is a consequence of cumulative decline in many physiological systems during a lifetime. This cumulative decline depletes homoeostatic reserves until minor stressor events trigger dispropo...