Abstract
Despite current advances in defining frailty, significant confusion remains, mainly because of multiple definitions for frailty and lack of standardized measurements. In addition to Fried’s definition of the frailty phenotype, other definitions have been proposed. The Frailty Index was developed using data from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging and took into consider-ation the number of deficits over time (i.e. disability, diseases, physical and cognitive impair-ments, psychosocial risk factors and geriatric syndromes).
Highlights
Frailty among older adults has been associated with several adverse health outcomes, including falls, hospitalization, functional decline and death.[1]
Tavares et al used the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) to measure physical activity level, while this was defined in accordance with the Minnesota Leisure Time Activities Questionnaire in the original study by Fried et al.[2]
In the study by Tavares et al, the only cardiovascular risk factor associated with frailty was overweight, which was more prevalent among pre-frail patients
Summary
Frailty among older adults has been associated with several adverse health outcomes, including falls, hospitalization, functional decline and death.[1]. In this issue of the Sao Paulo Medical Journal, two papers address the frailty syndrome using different samples from Brazil.
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