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Original Article

The relationship of multimorbidity with disability and frailty in the oldest patients: A cross-sectional analysis of three measures of multimorbidity in the BELFRAIL cohort

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Pages 39-44 | Received 03 Apr 2013, Accepted 04 Apr 2014, Published online: 01 Jul 2014

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