Sex differences in the frailty phenotype and mortality in the I-Lan longitudinal aging study cohort.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe study was approved by the institutional review board of National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University (no. YM103008). All participants provided written informed consent before enrolment. All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations (Declaration of Helsinki). Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding This study was supported in part by research grants from the Novel Bioengineering and Technological Approaches to Solve Two Major Health Problems in Taiwan program, sponsored by the Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology Academic Excellence Program (MOST 108–2633-B-009-001); Taipei Veterans General Hospital (VGH-V100E2–002 and VGHUST103-G7–2-1); the National Taiwan University Hospital, Hsinchu Branch (107-HCH002 and 108-HCH004); and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST-105-2314-B-002–119, 106–2314-B-002–173-MY3, MOHW 106-TDU-B-211-113001). The funding institutions took no part in the study design, data collection or analysis, publication intent, or manuscript preparation."