The combination of dynapenia and abdominal obesity as a risk factor for worse trajectories of IADL disability among older adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

The concept of dynapenic obesity has been gaining great attention recently. However, there is little epidemiological evidence demonstrating that dynapenic abdominal obese individuals have worse trajectories of disability than those with dynapenia and abdominal obesity alone. Our aim was to investigate whether dynapenia combined with abdominal obesity can result in worse trajectories of instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) among English and Brazilian older adults over eight and ten years of follow-up, respectively.

Methods

We used longitudinal data from 3374 participants from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and 1040 participants from the Brazilian Health, Well-being and Aging Study (SABE) who were free from disability as assesse

SUBMITTER: Alexandre TDS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6013360 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature