[PDF] Top 20 Frailty and cardiovascular risk in community-dwelling elderly: a population-based study

... this study calls attention to the fact that frail and pre-frail individuals present a higher number of associ- ated CVD risk factors – four or five factors, in comparison to non-frail, thereby indicating a ... See full document

... BADL and IADL were assessed using the Hierarchy of Care Required (HCR) [35]. HCR combines three sub- scales, including BADLs, IADLs, Cognition and Emotion. Every subscale has six activities, and each is divided into five ... See full document

... interactions were found between age group and gender. While the number of consultations increased by 6.7%, 8.4% and 9.1% with increasing age in men, the corre- sponding figures revealed a declining increase in women of ... See full document

... During the 6081.8 person years follow-up for 1257 participants with a median of 4.84±1.48 years, 173 CVD events were identi fi ed. 12.3% of the participants died and 40.0% of these deaths were due to CVD. Participants ... See full document

... particularly elderly men, but requires weighting cases to enhance the external validity of the ...this study, we also assumed that a transition between two non-consecutive disability states involved an ... See full document

... with frailty status among older adults with ...of frailty status and other factors with hospital admission and emergency department visits and for estimation of ORs and 95% ... See full document

... the elderly are influenced by multiple factors and the cause (source) of falls in individuals also varies; conse- quently, fall risk assessments should be carried out com- prehensively [3, ...fall ... See full document

... the risk of falling, and a number of studies have linked cognitive impairment and falls or fall-related injuries [2, 5, ...that elderly individuals living in the community with a history of falling ... See full document

... This study helps to highlight the pre-frail status [35] [36], which is mainly marked by a lack of socio-economic resources, with initial psycho-physical im- pairment, and is associated with a higher rate of UHS ... See full document

... the cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk of the elderly in a city in northeastern Bra- zil, and the correlation of this risk with vitamin D and PTH ...359 elderly, both genders, from ... See full document

... this study were a representative sample of community older adults, the use of standard protocols and instruments for data collection and prospective follo w-up ...between frailty and mortality, ... See full document

... ovascular risk factors take place in general ...this study was first, to analyze the level of eld- erly peoples' use of antihypertensive and lipid lowering drugs in relation to own and relatives' ... See full document

... this study lie in the construction of a measurement model of frailty in a large representative cohort of British women and its replication in a further large cohort representative of the British ... See full document

... the study [17] done among community-dwelling elderly in the USA, who visited a senior citizen health screening programme and found no relationship between orthostatic hypotension and ...a ... See full document

... the elderly. This study confirms that the carriage ratio of ...amongst elderly individuals residing in their own homes in different geographical areas is likely to be lower than rates reported for ... See full document

... topic. Frailty syndrome (FS) is a multi- dimensional clinical condition characterized by loss of physiological and cog- nitive reserves across multiple organ ...Fried frailty phenotype is the main model ... See full document

... previous study involving a similar cohort of elderly in the community availing of PHN services ...with frailty, particularly physical frailty, is well documented in the literature [20, ... See full document

... est risk for osteoporosis was thereby ...preliminary study and previous studies [5, 6, ...female population; the risk for hyperglycemia was higher in the SO group than in the purely obese ... See full document

... physical frailty status (robust, prefrail, and frail) and the empirically identified clusters of psychosocial factors (good, moderate, and low) interact and to analyze their impact on disability, we used the ... See full document

... this study was the Living Independently For Elders (LIFE) Program, a nursing practice owned and operated by the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, located in West ...the Elderly (PACE) ... See full document