ArticleThe journal of nutrition, health & aging2020
Association Between Number of Teeth, Denture Use and Frailty: Findings from the West China Health and Aging Trend Study.
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- Association between oral health status and frailty in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Oral frailty indicators to target major adverse health-related outcomes in older age: a systematic review.GeroScience · 2023Pooled it
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- Risk Prediction of Edentulism in Chinese Adults: Insights From the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS).International dental journal · 2026Article
- Multidimensional oral health and frailty in older adults: A sex-stratified cross-sectional study.PloS one · 2026Article
- Oral Frailty and Its Impact on Elderly Quality of Life: A Scoping Review.Clinical interventions in aging · 2026Article
- Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric validation of the simplified Oral Frailty Index (OFI-8) among Indonesian older adults.Frontiers in oral health · 2026Article
- Knowledge, attitude, and practice toward oral frailty management among nursing staff and its determinant factors: a multicentre cross-sectional study.Frontiers in oral health · 2026Article
- Development and validation of a dynamic nomogram for predicting cognitive impairment risk in older adults with dentures: analysis from CHARLS and CLHLS data.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Relationships among tooth loss, prefrailty, and dietary patterns in community-dwelling older Japanese females: a cross-sectional study.Nutrition research and practice · 2024Article
- Differences in the association of oral health knowledge, attitudes, and practices with frailty among community-dwelling older people in China.BMC oral health · 2023Article
- The Relationship of Oral Health with Progression of Physical Frailty among Older Adults: A Longitudinal Study Composed of Two Cohorts of Older Adults from the United Kingdom and United States.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2023Article
- Associations between transitions of intrinsic capacity and frailty status, and 3-year disability.BMC geriatrics · 2023Article
- Individual and combined associations of body mass index and waist circumference with components of metabolic syndrome among multiethnic middle-aged and older adults: A cross-sectional study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Article
- Frailty mediated the association between tooth loss and mortality in the oldest old individuals: a cohort study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Number of Teeth and Denture Use Are Associated with Frailty among Chinese Older Adults: A Cohort Study Based on the CLHLS from 2008 to 2018.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2023Article
- Determination of skeletal muscle mass by aspartate aminotransferase / alanine aminotransferase ratio, insulin and FSH in Chinese women with sarcopenia.BMC geriatrics · 2022Article
- Association of Number of Teeth with ADL/IADL in Korean Middle-Aged and Older Adults: An Analysis of the 7th Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveFrailty and poor oral health are both common age-related conditions. However, the association between oral health and frailty has not been explored thoroughly among older Chinese adults. We aimed to investigate the associations between number of teeth, denture use, and frailty among older adults in western China.
designCross-sectional study.
settingCommunity-based.
participantsParticipants were 4037 community-dwelling individuals aged 60 and older from the West China Health and Aging Trend (WCHAT) study. MEASUREMENTS: Frailty was assessed using the physical frailty phenotype (PFP) and categorized as non-frail, prefrail and frail. In addition, number of teeth and denture use were examined by calibrated dentists. Multinomial logistic regression models were performed to examine the association between number of teeth, denture use, and frailty.
resultsThe overall prevalence of frailty was 6.7% among 4037 participants aged 60 and older in western China. Participants with no more than 20 teeth were associated with higher odds of being prefrail or frail whether wearing dentures or not. Denture using could not help lower the odds of being prefrail or frail for older adults with fewer teeth.
conclusionsThis study suggested that frailty was associated with having fewer teeth (≤20 teeth) among older Chinese adults. Future research involving targeted interventions addressing number of teeth may help provide information to establish effective strategies for frailty prevention in older adults.
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