Adverse Health Effects of Frailty: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Middle-Aged and Older Adults With Implications for Evidence-Based Practice.

Background: Scholars have noted that frailty easily leads to functional deterioration and proneness to complications. Little literature addresses the stages of frailty in middle-aged and older adults and the effects of frailty on overall health.

Aims: This study explores the effect of different stages of frailty on the prospective health (falls, bone fractures, disability, dementia, hospitalization, and death) of middle-aged and older adults.

The Relationship Between Depression and Frailty in Community-Dwelling Older People: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of 84,351 Older Adults.

Objectives: In this study we investigated the correlation between depression and frailty in older adults. Additionally, correlations among study designs (prospective vs. cross-sectional), regions, depression indices, frailty indices, covariance corrections, and sexes were explored to support the analysis.

Surgical treatment of postburn heterotopic ossification around the elbow: Three case reports.

Rationale: Heterotopic ossification (HO), which is defined as the formation of new bone in tissues that do not normally ossify, is an infrequent yet debilitating complication of burns. Herein, we report three patients who suffered from elbow HO after burn injury due to a dust explosion event. This is a case report that includes the most cases involved in a single mass casualty incident in the presented literature.