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This document discusses frailty and sarcopenia. It defines frailty as a progressive age-related decline in physiological systems that results in vulnerability to stressors and increased health risks. There are two main concepts of frailty - as a syndrome driven by physiological changes, and as a collection of risk factors. Frailty overlaps with but is distinct from multimorbidity and disability. The document describes two main approaches to diagnosing frailty - the phenotype model focusing on physical compo

Author

Messias Filho

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EN