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Laboratory biomarkers and frailty: presentation of the FRAILOMIC initiative

  • Giuseppe Lippi ORCID logo EMAIL logo , Pidder Jansen-Duerr , Jose Viña , Anna Durrance-Bagale , Imad Abugessaisa , David Gomez-Cabrero , Jesper Tegnér , Johannes Grillari , Jorge Erusalimsky , Alan Sinclair , Leocadio Rodriguez-Manãs and on behalf of the FRAILOMIC consortium

Corresponding author: Prof. Giuseppe Lippi, U.O. Diagnostica Ematochimica, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Parma, Via Gramsci 14, 43126 Parma, Italy, Phone: +39 0521 703050, Fax: +39 0521 703791, E-mail: ; .

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Received: 2015-2-11
Accepted: 2015-2-18
Published Online: 2015-3-14
Published in Print: 2015-9-1

©2015 by De Gruyter

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