Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2024 East Monument Street, Suite 2-700, Baltimore, MD 21205-1179, USA.
Clin Geriatr Med. 2011 Feb;27(1):1-15. doi: 10.1016/j.cger.2010.08.009.
This article reviews the current state of knowledge regarding the epidemiology of frailty by focusing on 6 specific areas: (1) clinical definitions of frailty, (2) evidence of frailty as a medical syndrome, (3) prevalence and incidence of frailty by age, gender, race, and ethnicity, (4) transitions between discrete frailty states, (5) natural history of manifestations of frailty criteria, and (6) behavior modifications as precursors to the development of clinical frailty.
本文通过关注以下 6 个具体领域,回顾了关于脆弱性流行病学的现有知识状态:(1)脆弱性的临床定义,(2)作为医学综合征的脆弱性证据,(3)按年龄、性别、种族和民族划分的脆弱性流行率和发生率,(4)离散脆弱状态之间的转变,(5)脆弱性标准表现的自然病史,以及(6)行为改变作为临床脆弱性发展的前兆。