Assertion: frailty's prevalence | /r/HasProperty | low
Facets:
value: generally
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: For example, the frailty defining diagnosis approach (where the presence of one or more of a set of diagnoses typically associated with adverse aging is used to define frailty24,25) tends to estimate a relatively low prevalence (<10% in elective surgery15), whereas multidimensional clinical frailty assessments (eg, Fried Phenotype [FP], Clinical Frailty Scale [CFS]) tend to estimate a prevalence of 30%–40%.26
text: Notably, although the prevalence of disability is generally low before the cardiac surgery,37 the prevalence of frailty may be as high as 50%, perhaps implying that frailty is not considered as a relative contraindication for surgery, whereas frank disability is considered as an important risk factor to guide a patient away from surgery.31