Frailty and Vitamin D – with influence diagram Miller

Slide show Presented Oct 29, 2010
Discusses many different Frailty scales, and likes the following simple one.

FRAIL

• Fatigue (by self-report)

• Resistance (reported inability to walk up 10 steps without stopping)

• Ambulation (reported inability to walk ¼ mile on own without aids)

• Illnesses (more than 5 illnesses)

• Loss of weight (reported 10+ lb of wt loss in past year)

Over half of the slides are on the topic of Vitamin D

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See also at VitaminDWiki

• Search VitaminDWiki for Frailty 149 items in text as of May 2025

• Frailty is related to many things, such as low vitamin D – Sept 2018

• Frailty can be avoided – vitamin D is one of the ways – July 2017

• Elderly with less than 15 ng were 3.7X more frail – May 2010

• OVERVIEW: Seniors Lack Vitamin D

• Faility and prefraility associated with low levels of vitamin D – Nov 2012

• Seniors were 2X more likely to have functional limitation in 3 years if vitamin D deficient – Sept 2013