Negative Perception of Aging Is Associated With Frailty Transitions Within a Cohort of Sexual Minority Men.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Older people have an increased risk of developing frailty, an age-related clinical syndrome associated with worse health outcomes. This study examined the effect of self-perception of aging (ie, age discrepancy-individuals feel younger/older than their chronological age and aging satisfaction) on frailty transitions.

Research design and methods

We use longitudinal data from 549 HIV-/499 HIV+ sexual minority men aged 50 years or older enrolled in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study. To test the association of self-perception of aging on transitions between states of frailty (nonfrail/frail), defined using Fried Frailty Phenotype, a multinomial modeling was used.

Results

With remaining nonfrail as the referent group, participants reporting low ag

SUBMITTER: Nieves-Lugo K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8599189 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature