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Prevalencia de fragilidad en personas mayores de Chile: Resultados de la Encuesta Nacional de Salud 2016-2017
Dra. Troncoso-Pantoja, Claudia 
Facultad de Medicina 
Concha-Cisternas, Yeny
Leiva-Ordoñez, Ana
Martínez-Sanguinetti, María
Petermann-Rocha, Fanny
Díaz-Martínez, Ximena
Martorell, Miquel
Nazar, Gabriela
Ulloa, Natalia
Cigarroa-Cuevas, Igor
10.4067/S0034-98872020001001418
Sociedad Médica de Santiago
2020
Background: The assessment of frailty among older people could help to reduce its social and health burden.
Aim: To determine and characterize the prevalence of frailty in Chilean older adults.
Material and Methods: We studied 233 participants, aged > 60 years, participating in the Chilean National Health Survey 2016-2017. Frailty was assessed using modified Fried criteria. Thus, people classified as frail should meet at least 3 out of the 5 criteria (low strength, low physical activity, low body mass index, slow walking pace and tiredness).
Results: The prevalence of frailty was 10.9% (7.7% for men and 14.1% for women). The prevalence of pre-frailty was 59.0% whereas 30.1% of participants were classified as robust. At the age of 80 years 58 and 62% of men and women were frail, respectively. These figures increased to 90 and 87% at the age of 90 years. The prevalence of pre-frailty increased from 43 to 92.1% among men and from 76% and 78% among women from the ages of 60 to 90 years, respectively.
Conclusions: The prevalence of frailty increased markedly with age. It is important to implement prevention strategies to allow an early identification of high-risk individuals.
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