Multiple somatic symptoms and frailty: cross-sectional study in Japanese community-dwelling elderly people.

Nobuyoshi, Masaharu; Maeda, Takahiro; Tamai, Mami; Kadota, Koichiro; Nagayoshi, Mako; Koyamatsu, Jun; Shimizu, Yuji; Yamanashi, Hirotomo

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Multiple somatic symptoms and frailty: cross-sectional study in Japanese community-dwelling elderly people.

Author(s): Hirotomo Yamanashi ¹ , Yuji Shimizu ² , Jun Koyamatsu ² , Masaharu Nobuyoshi ³ , Mako Nagayoshi ² , Koichiro Kadota ² , Mami Tamai ⁴ , Takahiro Maeda ⁵

Publication date (Electronic): October 2016

Journal: Family practice

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

Keywords: Aging, at-risk groups, community medicine, geriatrics, medically unexplained symptoms, screening.

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Physical frailty is relevant to adverse outcomes, but appropriate procedures for screening populations are lacking. We hypothesized that frailty is associated with multiple somatic symptoms because frail elderly people might have several somatic symptoms attributed to deterioration of multiple organs.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Fam Pract

Title: Family practice

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

ISSN (Electronic): 1460-2229

ISSN (Print): 0263-2136

Publication date (Electronic): October 2016

Volume: 33

Issue: 5

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[1 ] Department of Island and Community Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Goto, Department of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki and yamanashi@nagasaki-u.ac.jp.

[2 ] Department of Community Medicine and.

[3 ] Department of Island and Community Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Goto.

[4 ] Department of Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.

[5 ] Department of Island and Community Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Goto, Department of Community Medicine and.

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Publisher Item ID: cmw028

DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cmw028

PubMed ID: 27130337

SO-VID: 504d0b10-e1f5-4196-86eb-d9599d533da6

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Keywords: screening.,Aging,at-risk groups,community medicine,geriatrics,medically unexplained symptoms

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Keywords: screening., Aging, at-risk groups, community medicine, geriatrics, medically unexplained symptoms

Multiple somatic symptoms and frailty: cross-sectional study in Japanese community-dwelling elderly people.

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