Association between a lifestyle-based healthy heart score and risk of frailty in older women: a cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evidence on the comprehensive role of lifestyle in frailty risk is scarce. To assess the association between a lifestyle-based Healthy Heart Score (HHS), which estimates the 20-year risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), and risk of frailty among older women.

Methods

Prospective cohort study in 121,700 nurses from the USA participating at the Nurses' Health Study. This study included 68,416 women aged ≥60 year with a follow-up from 1990 to 2014. The HHS was computed using the gender-specific beta-coefficients of the nine lifestyle factors, including current smoking, high body mass index, low physical activity, lack of moderate alcohol intake and unhealthy diet. Frailty incidence was assessed every 4 years from 1992 to 2014 as having ≥3 of the following five criteri

SUBMITTER: Sotos-Prieto M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8826375 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature