Construction and validation of a risk prediction model for oral frailty in rural hypertensive patients

The incidence of oral frailty is high in rural older adults hypertensive patients. Its influencing factors include age, education, living alone, polypharmacy, smoking, dysphagia, xerostomia, and comorbidities. The oral frailty risk prediction model constructed based on these influencing factors has high predictive and discriminative power and can be used as a screening tool for the risk of oral frailty in rural older adults hypertensive patients.