[PDF] Top 20 A study on the association between dehydroepiandrosterone and frailty in elderly.

... Several approaches have been developed to identify those who are frail. One, developed by Rockwood and colleagues [43,48,71] , described above, creates a summary measure of deficit accumulation (termed “frailty ... See full document

... the study participants, their literacy level, contact information were ...Fried’s frailty phenotypic criteria was employed to assess the frailty phenotype and it comprises of the following five ... See full document

... this study, we found that 396 cases ...which frailty scores ≥5 points, which indicated a status of ...with frailty had a higher IPSS than the cases without ...positive association was found ... See full document

... our study population experienced a disaster directly and lived in a disaster-affected area, survivors with serious psychological and/or physical health problems may not have undergone health ...of frailty ... See full document

... with frailty in this study were advanced age, female gender, presence of comorbidity, dependence in some basic ADL or IADL, depressive symp- toms, cognitive impairment, and negative self-perception of ... See full document

... the elderly is a common therapeutic practice due to the high number of non communicable chronic comorbidities and diseases present in this age group (ANTUNES et ...relationship between fragility and ... See full document

... this study, it is esti- mated that frail hypertensive patients’ stress ability tends to reduce in the morning, which leads to the decrease of the degree of sympa- thetic nervous system activation, RAS activa- tion ... See full document

... this study in an out- patient setting enabled frailty state evaluation to be per- formed comprehensively using FI-40 as the instrument, which had seldom been done in previous community- setting studies ... See full document

... of frailty syndrome and its association with demographic, economic, health, psychological and functional variables in Brazilian ...The study was cross-sectional and composed of 385 elderly ... See full document

... of frailty in the study was mFFC, shown in a preliminary analysis of this cohort to have a stronger association with poor outcomes ...this study, one of the five domains in Fried’s ... See full document

... The association between fatigue and bone mass identified in this study can also be explained by the deregula- tion of the immune and endocrine systems, with the actuation of interleukin-1, ... See full document

... Descriptive data were presented as means (SD) or numbers (percentage). The chi-square test and the Mann–Whitney test (the Kruskal–Wallis test when appropriate) were used for comparisons of characteristics according to ... See full document

... of frailty states associated to higher odds for adverse health conditions, especially those related to disability (Vieira et ...of frailty, indicating that this association may be related to the ... See full document

... significant association was found between FS and anemia in this ...this association contrasts with several studies conducted in Brazil and other countries [9] [24] ...of association ... See full document

... physical frailty phenotype by Fried and colleagues consists of measures of weakness, slowness, exhaustion, low physical activity, and what Fried and colleagues la- beled “shrinking” (Fried et ...Our frailty ... See full document

... our study was to investigate the impact of frailty on outcomes in older hospitalized patients in Vietnam, including prolonged length of stay and all-cause mortality 6 months after ...agreement ... See full document

... the elderly, Speechley & Tinetti (1992) developed a scale that separated participants into three functional groups: vigorous, frail, and transitioning to ...Aging Study), were obtained by administering ... See full document

... the elderly age ...the elderly population stays in the rural areas (World Health Organization, 2002), leading to concerns relating to elderly people living alone, with little family support and away ... See full document

... of frailty need to be tested against the effect of treat- ments or interventions in studies aiming to prevent or treat ...of frailty on recovery after a frac- ture or prevention of a secondary fracture in ... See full document

... a study on participants aged 65 or higher (n = 3605) in Spain, it was found that most of the participants with poor physical function were in obese group (BMI of 30 or ...relationship between waist ... See full document