Oral Health Indicators as Important Predictors of Frailty in Korean Adults Aged 50 Years and Older: A Sex-Stratified Explainable Machine Learning Approach.

Researchers developed machine-learning models using Korean national survey data to predict frailty in older adults, finding that oral health indicators like chewing difficulty ranked among the top predictors alongside conventional health factors, with some sex differences in which oral factors mattered most.

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