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Exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke and the frailty syndrome in US older adults.
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- Global burden of stroke attributable to secondhand smoke in 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2019: analysis of the global burden of disease study.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
- Household Polluting Fuel Use and Frailty among Older Adults in Rural China: The Moderating Role of Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Passive smoking as a risk factor among older adults: an ordered probability approach for Türkiye.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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- Secondhand smoke is positively associated with pre-frailty and frailty in non-smoking older adults.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke is associated with reduced muscle strength in US adults.Aging · 2019Article
- Environmental Pollutants, Limitations in Physical Functioning, and Frailty in Older Adults.Current environmental health reports · 2017Review
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Abstract
Exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) is a well-established risk factor for cardiovascular disease and lung cancer in nonsmoking adults. However, few studies have focused on the health consequences of exposure to SHS in older adults. This is the first study to assess the association between SHS and the frailty syndrome in the nonsmoking older adult population. Cross-sectional study was conducted among 2059 nonsmoking adults aged ≥60 years who participated in the third US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and had completed a physical examination. Exposure to SHS was assessed by serum cotinine concentrations and by self-reported data from the home questionnaire. Frailty was ascertained with a slight modification of the Fried criteria. Analyses were performed with logistic regression and adjusted for the main confounders. The median (interquartile range) concentration of serum cotinine was 0.095 (IQR 0.035-0.211) ng/mL. The prevalence of frailty was 6.0 %. The odds ratios (95 % confidence interval [CI]) of frailty comparing the second, third, and fourth to the lowest quartile of serum cotinine were, respectively, 1.44 (0.67-3.06), 1.46 (0.75-2.85), and 2.51 (1.06-5.95), p value for trend 0.04. An increased frequency of frailty was also observed in participants reporting to live with ≥2 smokers at home (odds ratio 5.37; 95 % CI 1.13-25.5). In the US nonsmoking older adult population, exposure to SHS was associated with an increased frequency of frailty. More efforts are needed to protect older adults from SHS, especially at home and in other areas not covered by smoke-free regulations.
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