Frailty is strongly associated with increased risk of recurrent falls among older HIV-infected adults.

Tassiopoulos K, Abdo M, Wu K, Koletar SL, Palella FJ, Kalayjian R, Taiwo B, Erlandson KM. Frailty is strongly associated with increased risk of recurrent falls among older HIV-infected adults. AIDS (London, England). 2017 Dec 23;31(31). 2287-2294. PMID: 28991026 [PubMed] PMCID: PMC5654616 NIHMSID: NIHMS900112.

Abstract

Both frailty and falls occur at earlier-than-expected ages among HIV-infected individuals, but the contribution of frailty-to-fall risk in this population is not well understood. We examined this association among participants enrolled in AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) A5322.