Steatotic liver disease is linked to greater frailty and lower muscle density compared with other liver disease etiologies.

Frailty among men was associated with a higher risk of death from a heart attack compared to women, according to a February study published in The Lancet Regional Health - Europe.

Scientists from Autonomous University of Madrid and collaborating institutions have found that a healthy plant-based diet is associated with a lower risk of frailty in older adults. The research, ...

Frailty was associated with higher risk of malnutrition, with an odds ratio of 2.47. This relationship appeared most pronounced among participants with chronic diseases, those with fewer than 20 teeth ...

Frailty is the thing surgeons all sense during clinic — slow gait, multiple comorbidities, that “this feels riskier than it should” ...

2 University of Leeds Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, Leeds, UK Background Lung cancer screening is effective for people at higher risk of the disease, but there is no international consensus on ...

Frailty and sarcopenia are prevalent, prognostically important geriatric syndromes, yet systematic assessment is limited by time, training, and access to specialist care. Kennedy and colleagues ...

The bumpy trajectory of human aging may have a tipping point as we enter our twilight years, a new study has found. Past the age of around 75, our bodies can no longer easily recover from injury or ...

Frailty assessed with a comorbidity-based risk-stratification tool correlates with long-term risks of mortality and geriatric symptoms following TAVI, according to new data. Compared with patients ...

Late in life, some bodies bend without breaking. A new analysis of aging male Rottweilers finds that keeping testicular hormone signaling intact across the lifespan can blunt the deadly punch of ...