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Gloria A. Aguayo
Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
* E-mail: [email protected]
Affiliation: Population Health Department, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Strassen, Luxembourg
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5625-1664
Michel T. Vaillant
Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Competence Center for Methodology and Statistics, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Strassen, Luxembourg
Anne-Françoise Donneau
Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Department of Public Health, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
Anna Schritz
Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Competence Center for Methodology and Statistics, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Strassen, Luxembourg
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8478-8055
Saverio Stranges
Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Laurent Malisoux
Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Population Health Department, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Strassen, Luxembourg
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-5630
Anna Chioti
Roles Methodology, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Population Health Department, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Strassen, Luxembourg
Michèle Guillaume
Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Department of Public Health, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
Majon Muller
Roles Methodology, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Section of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Daniel R. Witte
Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Affiliations Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Danish Diabetes Academy, Odense, DenmarkAbstract
Background
Frail elderly people experience elevated mortality. However, no consensus exists on the definition of frailty, and many frailty scores have been developed. The main aim of this study was to compare the association between 35 frailty scores and incident cardiovascular disease (CVD), incident cancer, and all-cause mortality. Also, we aimed to assess whether frailty scores added predictive value to basic and adjusted models for these outcomes.
Methods and findings
Through a structured literature search, we identified 35 frailty scores that could be calculated at wave 2 of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), an observational cohort study. We analysed data from 5,294 participants, 44.9% men,...