Sentences with phrase «frailty index»

A new study recently measured the gut microbiota in 728 female twins with varying degrees of frailty and discovered that people with a high Frailty Index (a measurement of frailty) possess gut microbiota with significantly lower diversity than those with low Frailty Index scores.

M. Antoch et al (2017) Physiological frailty index (PFI): quantitative in - life estimate of individual biological age in mice (http://www.aging-us.com/article/101206)

«I think using our frailty index can kind of enlighten surgeons into recognizing that even if they are doing an elective case, such as total knee or hip replacement, sicker patients who have significant medical histories may have a high risk of wound infections and even mortality,» Dr. Adams said.

A simplified frailty index created by surgeons at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Mich., is a reliable tool for assessing risk of mortality and serious complications in older patients considering total hip and knee replacement procedures, according to new study findings presented at the 2014 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons.

The simplified frailty index takes into account 11 data points collected by the ACS NSQIP database.

Not exact matches

«A likely explanation for the association is that low BMI (body mass index) is an indicator for frailty — a syndrome involving reduced weight, slower movement and loss of strength that is known to be associated with Alzheimer's risk,» Marshall said.

Conclusion «In conclusion, among older adults, these data suggest that frailty may be more strongly related to inflammation and the inflammatory index than age», write the researchers.

It is also associated with systemic inflammation and indices of physical frailty in aging (17) and is particularly elevated in those with celiac disease (6).