Old or frail: what tells us more?

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• Publication year

  2004

• Venue

  The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences

• Publication date

  2004-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1093/GERONA/59.9.M962PMID 15472162
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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