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Excess Body Mass Exacerbates the Association Between Poor Physical Function and Frailty in Older Community Dwelling Adults.
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- Predicting pregnancy-related low back pain: a prospective cohort protocol integrating motor control and functional movement tests with pressure pain thresholds.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Article
- Assessing Functional Independence and Associated Factors in Older Populations of Kazakhstan: Implications for Long-Term Care.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Numerous measures of physical function have been shown to be independently associated with frailty in older adults. This cross-sectional observational study aimed to identify the association between tests of physical function and frailty in community dwelling older adults and explore whether being overweight or obese increases the strength of this association. Mobility, balance, strength performance, and frailty status of 161 community dwelling older adults was measured. Logistic regression examined the association between these measures and frailty status. Participants with both poor performance on these measures (bottom 25% of performance within the cohort) and identified as being overweight or obese (body mass index [BMI] > 24.99) were compared to the rest of the cohort to identify whether weight status exacerbated the strength of these associations. Individually, BMI (odds ratio [OR]= 1.1, 95% CI = 1.0, 1.2;
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