Impact of the medical fitness model on long term health outcomes in older adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Physical inactivity is common among older adults and is associated with poor health outcomes. Medical fitness facilities provide a medically focused approach to physical fitness and can improve physical activity in their communities. This study aimed to assess the relationship between membership in the medical fitness model and all-cause mortality, health care utilization, and major adverse cardiac events in older adults.

Methods

A propensity weighted retrospective cohort study linked individuals that attended medical fitness facilities to provincial health administrative databases. Older adults who had at least 1 year of health coverage from their index date between January 1st, 2005 to December 31st 2015 were included. Controls were assigned a pseudo-index date

SUBMITTER: Brar R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11337618 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature