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. 2023 May:111:135-137.
doi: 10.1016/j.ejim.2023.01.006. Epub 2023 Jan 10.

Hyperglycemia drives the transition from pre-frailty to frailty: The Monteforte study

Pasquale Mone  1 , Stefano De Gennaro  2 , Salvatore Frullone  2 , Anna Marro  2 , Gaetano Santulli  3
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Hyperglycemia drives the transition from pre-frailty to frailty: The Monteforte study

Pasquale Mone et al. Eur J Intern Med. 2023 May.
No abstract available

Keywords: Aging; Comorbidities; Frailty; Hyperglycemia; Hypertension.

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Declaration of Competing Interest All authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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A. Percentages of patients with pre-frailty or frailty at baseline and at follow-up. B. Logistic Regression with frailty at follow-up as the dependent variable. BMI: Body mass index; DBP: diastolic blood pressure; HG: Hyperglycemia; HR: heart rate; NG: Normoglycemia; SBP: systolic blood pressure; *:p<0.001.
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