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Additional file 1: of Health and frailty among older spousal caregivers: an observational cohort study in Belgium
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posted on 2018-11-26, 05:00 authored by Florence Potier, Jean-Marie Degryse, Benoit Bihin, Florence Debacq-Chainiaux, Chantal Charlet-Renard, Henri Martens, Marie de Saint-HubertTable S1. Fried’s Frailty Criteria used for the study. The 5 criteria of the Fried’s Phenotype included unintentional weight loss (more than 4.5Kg in the past year), exhaustion, low physical activity (adapted from the InChianty study), slow walking speed (first quintile of walking speed in FRéLE study) and weakness (first quintile of grip strength in FRéLE study). (DOCX 15 kb)