Frailty is associated with susceptibility and severity of pneumonia in older adults (A JAGES multilevel cross-sectional study).

ABSTRACT: Pneumonia is a leading cause of mortality among older adults worldwide. Recently, several studies reported that frailty was associated with mortality among older adults hospitalized due to respiratory infectious diseases, including pneumonia. However, it is unknown whether frailty is associated with susceptibility to and severity of pneumonia in functionally-independent community-dwelling older adults. In this study, we examined whether frailty increased the susceptibility to pneumonia and hospitalization in older adults. We used cross-sectional data from the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study; the data was collected by using mail-based, self-reported questionnaires from 177,991 functionally-independent community-dwelling older adults aged ≥ 65 years. Our results showed that frailty was

SUBMITTER: Iwai-Saito K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8041848 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature