Multisystem failure regarding frailty necessitates multisystem intervention
E-Mail IMAGE: Diagnosis of frailty is based on three or more of five key clinical signs and symptoms: weakness, slow walking speed, low level of physical activity, fatigue or exhaustion, and unintentional... view more Credit: Jennifer Fairman FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Physicians understand frailty as a dysregulation among multiple systems in the body that make it less resilient and unable to recover completely when faced with a physical challenge such as injury or illness. "Defining frailty on a scientific level, however, has been a challenging task," explains Ravi Varadhan, Ph.D., as...