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22.03.2021 | EDITORIAL
Frailty, Thy Diagnosis Is Uncertain: Impact on IBD Readmission and Mortality
verfasst von:
Simon J. Hong, Seymour Katz
Erschienen in:
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
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Ausgabe 12/2021
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The term frailty was first used in 1979 to explain the heterogeneity in mortality of individuals, with its main focus on the decline in fitness and nutritional status associated with aging [
1,
2]. Frailty is now understood to be a multisystem dysregulation of homeostatic reserves that can occur at any age. This is characterized by increased vulnerability to stressors resulting from deficits in multiple physiologic systems, i.e., the immune, musculoskeletal, endocrine, and neurologic systems [
3]. …