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Title: | Association of Frailty and Malnutrition With Long-term Functional and Mortality Outcomes Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Results From the Singapore Longitudinal Aging Study 1 | Authors: | Wei, K. Nyunt, M.-S.-Z. Gao, Q. Wee, S.-L. Yap, K.-B. Ng, T.-P. |
Issue Date: | 2018 | Publisher: | NLM (Medline) | Citation: | Wei, K., Nyunt, M.-S.-Z., Gao, Q., Wee, S.-L., Yap, K.-B., Ng, T.-P. (2018). Association of Frailty and Malnutrition With Long-term Functional and Mortality Outcomes Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Results From the Singapore Longitudinal Aging Study 1. JAMA network open 1 (3) : e180650. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.0650 | Rights: | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | Abstract: | Importance: Physical frailty and malnutrition are prevalent among older adults and may be associated with functional and mortality outcomes. Objective: To assess the health outcomes associated with physical frailty and malnutrition singly and in combination among older adults. Design, Setting, and Participants: Population-based cohort study (Singapore Longitudinal Aging Study 1). Included were 2804 community-dwelling adults in Singapore aged 55 years or older at baseline (September 1, 2003, to December 23, 2005), with 2 follow-ups at 2- to 3-year intervals (from March 7, 2005, to September 10, 2007, and from November 13, 2007, to December 12, 2009) and a 12-year mortality follow-up to March 31, 2017. Data analysis was from July 1 to September 28, 2017. Main Outcomes and Measures: Baseline physical frailty (Fried criteria) with participants categorized according to the total score as frail (3-5 points), prefrail (1-2 points), or robust (0 point), and nutritional status (Nutrition Screening Initiative DETERMINE Your Nutritional Health Checklist and Mini Nutritional Assessment Short-Form [MNA-SF]). Baseline (prevalent) and follow-up (incident) instrumental/basic activities of daily living (IADL/ADL) disability, poor quality of life (QOL), and mortality were measured. Estimates of association were by odds ratios (ORs) and hazard ratios (HRs) and their 95% CIs. Results: The participants (mean [SD] age, 66.0 [7.7] years; 1033 [36.8%] male; 2611 [93.1%] Chinese) included 1021 (37.6%) categorized as robust with MNA-SF normal nutrition (R-NN), 330 (12.2%) robust with MNA-SF at risk/malnourished (R-ARM), 734 (27.0%) prefrail/frail with MNA-SF normal nutrition (PFF-NN), and 631 (23.2%) prefrail/frail with MNA-SF at risk/malnourished (PFF-ARM). Among these 2804 participants, 44 had missing frailty status, and 78 had missing MNA-SF nutritional status; therefore, 88 participants in total had missing frailty-nutritional status. In cross-sectional analyses, the prevalence of IADL/ADL disability was lowest among the R-NN group (169 [16.9%]) and increased substantially only among the PFF-ARM group (249 [40.2%]) (OR, 1.88; 95% CI, 1.40-2.53). Poor QOL prevalence was lowest among the R-NN group (142 [14.1%]), and the increase in other frailty and nutritional status groups was highest in the PFF-ARM group (255 [41.3%]) (OR, 2.61; 95% CI, 1.96-3.49). In longitudinal analyses, significant association with only incident poor QOL across frailty and nutritional status groups was highest in the PFF-ARM group (89 [34.8%]) compared with the R-NN group (132 [19.2%]) (OR, 1.70; 95% CI, 1.17-2.48). The mortality rate was lowest in the R-NN group (0.54 per 100 person-years) and highest in the PFF-ARM group (3.04 per 100 person-years) (HR, 1.72; 95% CI, 1.01-2.92). The results based on the Nutrition Screening Initiative measure of nutritional status were similar. Conclusions and Relevance: Reported adverse health outcomes attributed to poor nutrition often appear more likely to be associated with physical frailty. Prefrail/frail older persons with poor nutrition might be targeted for interventions to prevent or delay adverse functional and mortality outcomes. | Source Title: | JAMA network open | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/214038 | ISSN: | 25743805 | DOI: | 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.0650 | Rights: | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International |
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