Frailty predicts short-term survival even in older adults without multimorbidity

Alberto Zucchelli1, Davide L Vetrano2, Alessandra Marengoni1

  • 1Aging Research Center, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, 11330 Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, 25121 Brescia, Italy.

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