ArticleClinical interventions in aging2020
Association Between Body Composition and Frailty in Elder Inpatients.
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- Prevalence of Frailty and Associated Sociodemographic, Biomedical, and Biochemical Factors Amongst Participants Residing in Limpopo Province, South Africa.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A framework of biomarkers for adipose tissue aging: a consensus statement by the Aging Biomarker Consortium.Life medicine · 2025Article
- Nutritional status and frailty in elderly patients undergoing major abdominal surgery for upper gastrointestinal tumors: a single-center prospective observational study.Irish journal of medical science · 2025Observational
- Sex Specificities in the Association Between Diet, Physical Activity, and Body Composition Among the Elderly: A Cross-Sectional Study in Florence, Italy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- The Effect of Frailty on Body Composition and Its Impact on the Use of SGLT-2 Inhibitors and GLP-1RA in Older Persons with Diabetes.Metabolites · 2025Review
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Abstract
purposeThe study aimed to investigate the association between body composition and frailty in elder inpatients. PATIENTS AND
methodsThis is a cross-sectional study including 656 elder inpatients (275 females and 381 males) aged ≥65 years, from department of geriatrics of Zhejiang Hospital between January 2018 and March 2019. Sociodemographic, health-related data and anthropometric measurements were evaluated. Body composition was assessed by bioimpedance analysis (BIA), mainly including skeletal muscle mass, body fat mass, total body water, fat-free mass,percent body fat, basal metabolic rate. Frailty was assessed by Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS). Univariate logistic regression was used to analyze the association between body composition and frailty.
resultsFrailty was present in 43.9% of the participants. Frail inpatients showed higher waist circumference, body fat mass and percent body fat, non-frail inpatients showed greater upper arm circumference, calf circumference, skeletal muscle mass, total body water, fat-free mass and basal metabolic rate. Subjects with underweight (body mass index (BMI)<18.5 kg/m
conclusionFrailty in elder Chinese inpatients was characterized by a body composition phenotype with underweight, high waist circumference, low skeletal muscle mass and high body fat mass. Underweight, abdominal obesity and sarcopenic obesity may, therefore, be targets for intervention of frailty.
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