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ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Associations between Neurocardiovascular Signal Entropy and Physical Frailty.

Silvin P Knight, Louise Newman, John D O'Connor, James Davis, Rose Anne Kenny, Roman Romero-Ortuno

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Article in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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6 authors.

Silvin P KnightThe Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, D02 R590 Dublin, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0003-1245-4870
Louise NewmanThe Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, D02 R590 Dublin, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0001-8192-0447
John D O'ConnorThe Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, D02 R590 Dublin, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0001-7090-9293
James DavisThe Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, D02 R590 Dublin, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0001-6388-2184
Rose Anne KennyThe Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, D02 R590 Dublin, Ireland.
Roman Romero-OrtunoThe Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, D02 R590 Dublin, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-3882-7447

Funding

Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) 18/FRL/6188
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this cross-sectional study, the relationship between noninvasively measured neurocardiovascular signal entropy and physical frailty was explored in a sample of community-dwelling older adults from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). The hypothesis under investigation was that dysfunction in the neurovascular and cardiovascular systems, as quantified by short-length signal complexity during a lying-to-stand test (active stand), could provide a marker for frailty. Frailty status (i.e., "non-frail", "pre-frail", and "frail") was based on Fried's criteria (i.e., exhaustion, unexplained weight loss, weakness, slowness, and low physical activity). Approximate entropy (ApEn) and sample entropy (SampEn) were calculated during resting (lying down), active standing, and recovery phases. There was continuously measured blood pressure/heart rate data from 2645 individuals (53.0% female) and frontal lobe tissue oxygenation data from 2225 participants (52.3% female); both samples had a mean (SD) age of 64.3 (7.7) years. Results revealed statistically significant associations between neurocardiovascular signal entropy and frailty status. Entropy differences between non-frail and pre-frail/frail were greater during resting state compared with standing and recovery phases. Compared with ApEn, SampEn seemed to have better discriminating power between non-frail and pre-frail/frail individuals. The quantification of entropy in short length neurocardiovascular signals could provide a clinically useful marker of the multiple physiological dysregulations that underlie physical frailty.

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approximate entropyblood pressurecardiovascularfrontal lobe oxygenationheart ratenear infrared spectroscopyneurovascularNIRSphysical frailtysample entropyTILDA

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PMID33374999
PMCPMC7822043

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