Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics
Volume 54, Issue 1 , Pages 9-15 , January 2012

Association between inflammatory-related disease burden and frailty: Results from the Women's Health and Aging Studies (WHAS) I and II

  • Sandy S. Chang

      Affiliations

    • Section of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, P.O. Box 208025, 333 Cedar St., New Haven, CT 06520-8025, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 203 737 4814; fax: +1 203 688 4209.
    • ,
  • Carlos O. Weiss

      Affiliations

    • Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, John R. Burton Pavillion, 5505 Hopkins Bayview Circle, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    • ,
  • Qian-Li Xue

      Affiliations

    • Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, John R. Burton Pavillion, 5505 Hopkins Bayview Circle, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    • ,
  • Linda P. Fried

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 722 West 168th Street, R1048, New York, NY 10048, USA

Received 13 February 2011 ,Revised 16 May 2011 ,Accepted 17 May 2011.

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