Physicians understand frailty as a dysregulation among multiple systems in the body that make it less resilient and unable to recover completely when faced with a physical challenge such as injury or ...

Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio may indicate the presence of frailty among older adults with multiple myeloma. Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) could serve as a readily available potential ...

Age-associated cumulative decline across physiologic systems results in a diminished resistance to stressors, including cancer and its treatment, creating a vulnerable state known as frailty. Frailty ...

“The classification of patients according to their level of frailty allows us to adjust prevention programs and focus our limited resources on the right action for the right person” “The ...

Brea C. Lipe, MD, highlights considerations for frail patients when treating for MM. Ryan Haumschild, PharmD, MS, MBA: One of the things we’ve talked a lot about is [that] multiple myeloma might be a ...

Patients should be assessed for frailty before having many types of surgery, even if the surgery is considered low risk, a review of two national patient databases shows. Frailty is a clinical ...

Physical frailty is strongly associated with an increased dementia risk in older adults, and according to researchers, the link may be causal. In an analysis of nearly half a million UK Biobank ...

Frailty in older Australians is imposing a staggering burden on Australia's health care system and is driving up costs in community aged-care, new research by Flinders University has revealed.

Older adults living with frailty have long faced a clinical gray zone when it comes to cholesterol-lowering drugs: doctors ...