ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2018
Calf Circumference as a Screening Tool for Cognitive Frailty in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: The Korean Frailty and Aging Cohort Study (KFACS).
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- Sarcopenia and its Cognitive Consequences: Insights from an Urban Indian Cohort.Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology · 2025Article
- Non-linear relationship between calf circumference and global cognition in Chinese population: a cross-sectional study of 12,102 Chinese older adults.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Article
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- Comparison of the prevalence and associated factors of cognitive frailty between elderly and middle-young patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis.International urology and nephrology · 2022Article
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- Sarcopenia Is Associated with Cognitive Impairment Mainly Due to Slow Gait Speed: Results from the Korean Frailty and Aging Cohort Study (KFACS).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Development and Validation of a Tool to Screen for Cognitive Frailty among Community-Dwelling Elders.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2019Article
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to examine calf circumference in relation to cognitive frailty in community-dwelling older adults. Cross-sectional analysis was performed on the first-year baseline data of 1559 adults aged 70⁻84 years enrolled in the Korean Frailty and Aging Cohort Study. The final analysis included 1221 adults who were non-dependent in terms of instrumental activities of daily living, who underwent frailty and cognitive function assessments. Physical frailty was defined using the Fried Frailty Index. Cognitive impairment was defined as a score 1.5 standard deviations below the age-, sex- and education-matched norms on any of four cognitive-function tests. The prevalence of cognitive frailty was 2.8% for men and 3.8% for women. After adjusting for potential confounders, in comparison to the "physically robust without cognitive impairment" group, the estimates of increased odds ratios (ORs) for low calf circumference (<32 cm) were much greater in the prefrail with cognitive impairment (OR 4.62, 95% confidence interval (CI): 2.02⁻10.61) and frail with cognitive impairment (OR 10.94, 95% CI: 2.87⁻41.68) groups in men but not in women. Low calf circumference was strongly related to cognitive frailty in men only, suggesting calf circumference can be used as an indicator of these outcomes.
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