Steps in the right direction for physical frailty research

In this issue of The Lancet Digital Health, Rongtao Jiang and colleagues1 present a broad and well powered observational study of the correlates of physical frailty among nearly half a million middle-aged and older adults in the UK Biobank. Using a modification of the Fried frailty phenotype2 (based on weakness, walking speed, inactivity, exhaustion, and weight loss), the strongest correlates of…

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