Combination of dynapenia and abdominal obesity affects long-term physical performance trajectories in older adults: sex differences.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is little epidemiological evidence of sex differences in the association between dynapenic abdominal obesity and the decline in physical performance in older adults.

Objectives

The aims of the present study were to investigate whether the decline in physical performance is worse in individuals with dynapenic abdominal obesity and whether there are sex differences in this association.

Methods

Of 6183 individuals aged ≥60 y from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, 2308 participants with missing data were excluded. Therefore, a longitudinal analysis was conducted with 3875 older adults. Abdominal obesity was determined based on waist circumference (>102 cm for males, and >88 cm for females), and dynapenia was based on grip strength (<26 kg for male

SUBMITTER: Maximo RO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9071386 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature