Anna Maria Louka, Christos Tsagkaris, Panagiotis Christoforou, Andleeb Khan, Filia Alexiou, Panagiota Simou, Ioannis Haranas, Ioannis Gkigkitzis, Georgios Zouganelis, Niraj Kumar Jha, Md Sahab Uddin, Bairong Shen, Mohammad A Kamal, Ghulam Md Ashraf, Athanasios Alexiou
While frailty corresponds to a multisystem failure, geriatric assessment can recognize multiple pathophysiological lesions and age changes. Up to now, a few frailty indexes have been introduced, presenting definitions of psychological problems, dysregulations in nutritional intake, behavioral abnormalities, and daily functions, genetic, environmental, and cardiovascular comorbidities. The geriatric evaluation includes a vast range of health professionals; therefore, we describe a broad range of applications and frailty scales-biomarkers to investigate and formulate the relationship between frailty lesions, diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment...
July 29, 2022: Frontiers in Bioscience (Landmark Edition)