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Determining frailty index thresholds for older people across multiple countries in sub-Saharan Africa - Communications Medicine Dzando et al. identify locally relevant frailty thresholds for older people in Sub-Saharan Africa through Receiver Operating Characteristic analysis and random-effects meta-analysis. Findings demonstrate variability in population level thresholds with a pooled threshold of 0.29 demonstrating good sensitivity and specificity across the populations.

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Dzando et al. identify frailty thresholds for older people in Sub-Saharan Africa, accounting for differences compared to frailty thresholds in high-income countries.

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