Boston—An older adult’s number of chronic pain sites predicts the likelihood of falling into frailty, according to new research.
“Frailty is a condition of heightened vulnerability to psychosocial stress, and it has been shown to be a strong predictor of a variety of adverse outcomes such as hospitalization, disability and mortality,” said Kushang V. Patel, PhD, MPH, a research associate professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine at the University of Washington Medical