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Abstract
Background: Frailty is a highly prevalent emerging geriatric syndrome that describes the decline in physiological reserve with age rendering the elderly vulnerable and less able to withstand minor stressors. It can be affected by the increasing number of drugs and morbidities in the geriatrics population.
Objective: to study the prevalence of frailty and pre-frailty and its relation to the number of comorbidities and medications received among elderly patients attending the outpatient clinics of Ain Shams University Hospital.
Methods: A cross-sectional study including 104 elderly attending outpatient clinics of Ain Shams University hospitals. Frailty status was determined using the clinical frailty scale during their visit to the clinic. Then detect the prevalence of comorbidities and polypharmacy among the different states of frailty.
Results: The present study showed that by using the clinical frailty scale 48% are frail, 22.1% are vulnerable and 29.9% are managing well. It was also found that the number of comorbidities and medications is related to frailty in an increasing fashion.
Conclusion: Frailty and pre-frailty are prevalent in elderly. It is strongly associated with number of medications using the clinical frail scale. High numbers of comorbidities are correlated with the frail status.