CRP and malnutrition: Besides musculoskeletal health, frailty was also associated with poorer functional status, poorer cognitive function, higher malnutrition risk, and higher burden of chronic conditions as in some of the previous studies.[4,41,48] Moreover, frail elderly people also had higher serum levels of HbA1c and hs-CRP, which was related to chronic inflammation and insulin resistance.[49–51]