Cardiovascular risk factors and frailty in a cross-sectional study of older people: implications for prevention.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

to examine the associations of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cardiovascular risk factors with frailty.

Design

a cross-sectional study.

Setting

the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA).

Participants

frailty measures were obtained on 5,618 participants and a subset of 4,330 participants with no prior history of CVD.

Exposures for observational study

cardiovascular risk factors were combined in three composite CVD risk scores (Systematic Coronary Risk Evaluation [SCORE], Ideal Cardiovascular Health [ICH] and Cardiovascular Health Metrics [CHM]).

Main outcome measures

a frailty index (40-items) was used to screen for frailty.

Methods

the associations of CVD risk factors with frailty were examined using logistic regression.

SUBMITTER: Wong TY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6108388 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature