Physical activity and the risk of frailty among community-dwelling healthy older adults: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Frailty has become one of the biggest challenges in facilitating healthy aging. Our study aims to investigate the association between physical activity and the risk of frailty, meanwhile, conduct a dose-response to observe the relationship between physical activity volume and frailty.

Method

We will systematically search six databases to identify cohort studies assessing the association between physical activity and risk of frailty. Risk of bias of individual study will be assessed using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. Data will be analyzed by using STATA V.12.0.

Results

The results of this study will be published in a peer-reviewed journal.

Conclusion

We will first investigate whether specific-physical activity reduce the risk to onset frailty in health

SUBMITTER: Pan B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6736461 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature