Frailty Is Associated With Cognitive Decline Independent of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease and Brain Atrophy.

"Conflict of Interest T.G.P. has received speaker honorariums from Genzyme, Pfizer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bayer and served on an advisory board for Genzyme. M.L.C. serves as an Associate Editor for Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences. T.P.S., V.K.S., R.E.H., C.M., R.B., A.G.W., T.A.C., and S.G. have no conflict to declare."

"Funding This work was supported by National Health and Medical Research Council (403000 and 491109), Perpetual Trustees, Brain Foundation, Royal Hobart Hospital Research Foundation (341M), Australian and New Zealand Charitable Trust, Masonic Centenary Medical Research Foundation. M.L.C. is supported by a Boosting Dementia Research Fellowship from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (1135761). V.K.S. is supported by a Practitioner Fellowship from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (1137837). The funding source(s) did not influence the conduction of the study in any way."