Joint Association of Physical Frailty and Self-Rated Health With Mortality Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The relationship between subjective and objective health is complex and not always matched. Although frailty and self-rated health (SRH) have been separately associated with adverse outcomes, their joint effects remained unclear.

Methods

Participants were 5 300 adults ≥60 years from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study in 2011. Frailty, measured by the validated physical frailty phenotype approach, was classified as nonfrail, prefrail, and frail. SRH was categorized into 3 groups: excellent/very good/good, fair, and poor/very poor. We used the Cox models to examine the independent and joint association of frailty and SRH with mortality. We used the interaction approach to determine whether the association of SRH with mortality differed by frailty. Su

SUBMITTER: Wu C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11491745 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature