Plasma Adiponectin Levels Correlate Positively with an Increasing Number of Components of Frailty in Male Elders

• Jaw-Shiun Tsai,

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chih-Hsun Wu,

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Su-Chiu Chen,

  Affiliation Department of Health Care Management, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Kuo-Chin Huang,

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chin-Ying Chen,

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Ching-I Chang,

  Affiliation Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Institute of Population Health Science, National Health Research Institutes, Ju-Nan, Taiwan

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• Lee-Ming Chuang ,

  * E-mail: chency@nhri.org.tw (Ching-Yu Chen); leeming@ntu.edu.tw (LMC)

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Ching-Yu Chen

  * E-mail: chency@nhri.org.tw (Ching-Yu Chen); leeming@ntu.edu.tw (LMC)

  Affiliations Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Institute of Population Health Science, National Health Research Institutes, Ju-Nan, Taiwan

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