The accumulation of deficits approach to describe frailty

• Raskit Lachmann ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Raskit Lachmann, Marta Stelmach-Mardas

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1098-1765

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• Marta Stelmach-Mardas ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Raskit Lachmann, Marta Stelmach-Mardas

  Roles Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: stelmach@ump.edu.pl

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany, Department of Biophysics, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8929-5770

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• Manuela M. Bergmann,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany

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• Wolfgang Bernigau,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany

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• Daniela Weber,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Toxicology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2054-6233

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• Tobias Pischon,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Molecular Epidemiology Research Group, Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin-Buch, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1568-767X

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• Heiner Boeing

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany

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