ArticleThe Korean journal of internal medicine2020
What are the illnesses associated with frailty in community-dwelling older adults: the Korean Frailty and Aging Cohort Study.
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- Interplay between frailty and cardiometabolic disorders: from pathophysiology to clinical implications.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2025Pooled it
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence, trajectories, and clinical outcomes for frailty in COPD.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2023Pooled it
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- Association between chronic respiratory diseases and frailty in Chinese elderly: a population-based longitudinal study.BMJ open respiratory research · 2025Article
- Frailty and nutritional inadequacy in older Korean adults: A gender-stratified analysis using National Survey Data.PloS one · 2025Article
- The causal association between asthma and the risk of frailty: A two-sample Mendelian randomization study.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2024Article
- Impact of frailty on mortality and healthcare costs and utilization among older adults in South Korea.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Prevalence and Related Factors of Lower Urinary Tract Infection in Frail Older Adults Undergoing Major Noncardiac Surgery.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Nutritional and physical activity issues in frailty syndrome during the COVID-19 pandemic.Therapeutic advances in musculoskeletal disease · 2023Review
- The causal relationship between risk of developing bronchial asthma and frailty: a bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization study.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- Validity of the Clinical Frailty Scale in Korean older patients at a geriatric clinic.The Korean journal of internal medicine · 2021Article
- Frailty and chronic respiratory disease: the need for a multidisciplinary care model.Sarcoidosis, vasculitis, and diffuse lung diseases : official journal of WASOG · 2021Article
- Diagnosis and Management of Frailty in Primary Health Care.Korean journal of family medicine · 2020Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND/
aimsFrailty is mainly due to an age-related decrease in the physiological reserves needed to maintain biological homeostasis, but it can also occur as a result of chronic diseases. The purpose of this study was to identify illnesses associated with frailty in Korean community-dwelling older adults.
methodsThis was a cross-sectional study that included 2,936 older adults aged between 70 and 84 years who had completed both interviews and physical function assessments for the Korean Frailty and Aging Cohort Study. Current illnesses diagnosed by physicians were included in the analysis. The definition of frailty was derived from the Fried frailty phenotype.
resultsThe prevalence of hypertension, diabetes mellitus (DM), arthritis, osteoporosis, urinary incontinence, and lung disease (including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and chronic bronchitis) was higher in the frail group (p < 0.05). After adjusting for age, sex, physical activity, alcohol, smoking, education, and presence of a spouse, the odds ratios for DM and urinary incontinence in frailty were 1.51 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.10 to 2.01; p = 0.01) and 1.88 (95% CI, 1.11 to 3.18; p = 0.02).
conclusionIn Korean community-dwelling older adults, DM and urinary incontinence were associated with frailty after adjusting for various factors. In the future, the list of comorbid diseases that are appropriate for Korean population-specific frailty assessment should be inventoried.
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