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Social Strain is associated with Functional Decline in Older Adults after Surgery

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The data is publically available through the Health and Retirement Study.

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We would like to thank Dr. Sun Young Jeon for her assistance with data acquisition.

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  1. Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Victoria L. Tang MD, MAS, Irena Cenzer PhD, Christina Keny RN, MS, W. John Boscardin PhD, Ken Covinsky MD, MPH & Ashwin Kotwal MD, MS

  2. Geriatrics, Palliative, and Extended Care Service Line, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Victoria L. Tang MD, MAS, Christina Keny RN, MS, Ken Covinsky MD, MPH & Ashwin Kotwal MD, MS

  3. School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Christina Keny RN, MS

  4. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    W. John Boscardin PhD

  5. Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Emily Finlayson MD, MS

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All authors have read and approved this manuscript. VT, AK, and IC contributed to the study concept and design. IC contributed to the acquisition of subjects. All authors contributed to the analysis and interpretation of data. VT, AK, and IC prepared the manuscript. All authors contributed to critical revisions of the manuscript.

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Correspondence to Victoria L. Tang MD, MAS.

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This work was funded by The National Institute of Aging of the National Institutes of Health(K76AG05993 and K23AG065438-03), the National Institute of Nursing Research of the National Institutes of Health(T32NR01692), and the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health and the University of California, San Francisco Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (P30AG044281).

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This article was supported by a grant from the National Institute on Aging K76AG059931.The National Institute on Aging had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication.

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Dr. Emily Finlayson is the Founding Chair of Ooney, Inc, which falls outside of the submitted work. The other authors report no relevant conflicts.

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Tang, V.L., Cenzer, I., Keny, C. et al. Social Strain is associated with Functional Decline in Older Adults after Surgery. J GEN INTERN MED 39, 351–353 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-023-08484-x

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