ArticleGeriatrics & gerontology international2014
Frailty Index in Europeans: association with determinants of health.
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- Associations between the SHARE frailty phenotype and common frailty characteristics: evidence from a large Danish population study.BMJ open · 2019Observational
- Being born in the aftermath of World War II increases the risk for health deficit accumulation in older age: results from the KORA-Age study.European journal of epidemiology · 2019Article
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- The accumulation of deficits approach to describe frailty.PloS one · 2019Article
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Abstract
aimThe Frailty Index (FI) summarizes differences in health status within individuals, and the determinants of health drive that variability. The aim of the present study was to investigate the influence of education, income, smoking, alcohol intake and parental longevity on the FI variability in subjects of the same chronological age group.
methodsAnalyses were based on a 40-item FI based on the first wave of the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE, http://www.share-project.org/), including 29 905 participants aged ≥50 years from 12 countries. For each sex, the sample was divided into age categories (50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and ≥90), and FI quartiles within age categories were calculated. Multivariate ordinal regressions were computed to assess the relative contribution of the health determinants on the FI quartiles in each age group.
resultsIn women, the most significant multivariate predictors were years of education (odds ratios [OR] around 0.9), and difficulties making ends meet (OR between 1.8 and 2.1). In men, the most significant multivariate predictors were years of education (OR around 0.9), difficulties making ends meet (OR between 1.6 and 2.1), mother's age at death (OR under 1), and father's age at death (OR under 1).
conclusionsConsistently with the literature, education and income explained, in both sexes, cross-sectional variability in FI in subjects of the same chronological age group. The influence of parental longevity seemed to be greater in men, which mirrors previous studies showing that genetic factors might have a higher impact on longevity in men.
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