Exploring sex differences in frailty and hospitalization among older adults with diabetes in Vietnam
Tan Van Nguyen, Dung Ngoc Truong, Wei Jin Wong, Mark Woodward, Tu Nguyen · 2026
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Tan Van Nguyen and colleagues explore whether frailty hits older Vietnamese women and men with diabetes differently. Six hundred forty-four clinic patients aged sixty and up were graded by Fried's frailty criteria across two hospitals. Their 2026 observational study then tracks six months of hospitalizations.
Three in ten participants qualified as frail, with women modestly ahead of men. Frailty raised hospitalization risk in both sexes, but the link ran stronger in women. The authors read this as grounds for sex-aware diabetes care in aging patients. Screening grandmothers and grandfathers by the same cutoffs may miss unequal danger, they suggest.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Tan Van Nguyen, Dung Ngoc Truong, Wei Jin Wong, Mark Woodward, Tu Nguyen |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |