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• Maturitas · Jan 2013

  Frailty and mortality, disability and mobility loss in a Spanish cohort of older adults: the FRADEA study.

  Original Fried's frailty criteria have not demonstrated their prognostic validity of mortality, disability and mobility loss in European cohorts. ⋯ Fried's frailty criteria are associated with death, incident disability, and mobility impairment in a Spanish cohort of older adults.

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• Maturitas · Jan 2013

  Chronic pain, impact of pain and pain severity with physical disability in older people--is there a gender difference?

  To establish if there is any gender difference in associations between chronic pain, impact of pain and pain severity with physical disability. ⋯ There is no gender difference in associations between pain and physical disability among older people. However, psychological distress accounted for more pain-related physical disability in men than in women.

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