Frailty and Kidney Disease: An Interview

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Sample schema of frailty progression showing areas of overlap between age, multimorbidity, frailty, and disability. Events may not occur in a linear progression, and frailty is not an inevitable sequela of chronologic aging or living with multimorbidity. Dotted line represents a threshold after which individual can no longer return to a robust health state. Figure 1 from Nair et al, © National Kidney Foundation.

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