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RESULTS: The estimated transition probabilities from frail to CVD increased over time (11% at five years, and 18% at ten years) and consistently exceeded the corresponding five- and ten-year transition probabilities from pre-frail to CVD (8% and 14% respectively). Compared to males, females had a 26% higher relative risk of progressing to a pre-frail/frail state; however, they had about 50% lower relative risk of transitioning from pre-frail/frail to CVD. Older age, socioeconomic and geographic disparities were associated with up to 38% higher relative risk of worsening frailty and progression to CVD. Similar findings were observed when using the Fried phenotype. CONCLUSION: The probability of transiting from pre-frail/frail to CVD increased over time, even among initially healthy older people. Targeted prevention strategies may be helpful to delay frailty progression and reduce CVD risk in older age, particularly socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals or those residing outside major cities, and different approaches may be required in females and males.","journal":"Canadian Journal of Cardiology","year":2025,"id":535731,"datarank":0.16479184330021646,"base_score":1.0986122886681096,"endowment":1.0986122886681096,"self_citation_contribution":0.16479184330021646,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.16479184330021646,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":29.844511487584125,"corpus_rank":8690,"citation_count":2,"citer_count":1,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":true,"is_dataset_confidence":0.5607,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2025-01-01","fair_score":29.1667,"fair_percentile":43.01436869458881,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1420398,"name":"Andrew M. 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