[PDF] Top 20 A study on association of thyroid function and frailty in elderly

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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, interleukin-6, ... See full document

... statistical association between fragility and ...quantitative study participants, which represent a local reality of the region in which the research was ...with elderly patients hospitalized (PERNA ... See full document

... the study of Kim et ...of thyroid hormone on bone is independent of TSH ...stronger association between thyroid hormones and femoral density compared to the lumbar bone may be due to the ... See full document

... of frailty across CKD populations are hampered by different characteristics of the cohorts ...of frailty. Specifically, the prevalence of frailty is higher using definitions based on self- reported ... See full document

... present study had hyponatremia. They were further evaluated with thyroid function tests to see if there was any association between hypothyroidism and ...statistical association between ... 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

... The association, sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values of the classical symptoms, individually and together, for actual biochemical thyroid dysfunction in these patients were obtained and ...The ... See full document

... of frailty, found that cognitive impairment and low physical activity are the main contributing factors of the frailty phenotype to disability ...the Frailty of Elderly Brazilians (REDE ... 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 between ... 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

... unlikely to have influenced our findings in any significant fashion due to the large sample size and the likelihood of transient fluctuations impacting at both time points. The predictive model needs to be interpreted ... See full document

... increasing elderly population, studies in health intensified, in particular those related to frailty, so that the identification of the instruments used to characterize the fragile state and enable the ... 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

... unintentional weight loss, exhaustion, and low activity were based on self-reported items, including “weight has decreased by 4.5 kg or 5% during the last 12 months”, “feeling tired all of the time (at least 3 or 4 days ... See full document

... our study may be due to the age- related changes in the lung function of elderly ...muscle function is impaired, the alveolar surface area is reduced and there is increased ... See full document

... based study among school children in eastern Nepal, Chaudhari et ...[24]. Study by Baral et ...reported thyroid dysfunction par- ticularly subclinical hypothyroidism in large part of study ... See full document

... present study, size of swelling ranged from 1 to 5 ...significant association between swelling size and thyroid function ...present study, Hafez et ...present study, majority of ... See full document