Course of frailty stratified by physical and mental multimorbidity patterns: a 5-year follow-up of 92,640 participants of the LifeLines cohort study.

Richard C Oude VoshaarH W JeuringM K BorgesR H S van den BrinkR M MarijnissenE O HoogendijkB van MunsterI Aprahamian

Published in: BMC medicine (2021)

Frailty may be seen as a final common pathway for premature death due to chronic diseases. Our results suggest that initiating frailty prevention at middle age, when the first chronic diseases emerge, might be relevant from a public health perspective.

Keyphrases

public health
community dwelling
mental health
physical activity
global health