FRAILTY REDUCTION. “In particular, given that reproductive-aged individuals with relatively high frailty (i.e. an individual’s risk of death relative to other members of the population) were more likely to die during the Black Death than their age-peers with lower frailty, the epidemic might have affected genetic variation with respect to disease susceptibility or immune competence and thus, acted to reduce average levels of frailty in the surviving population.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022