Multimorbidity patterns and risk of frailty in older community-dwelling adults: a population-based cohort study.
Age Ageing
; 50(6): 2183-2191, 2021 11 10.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
the aim of this study was to examine the cross-sectional and longitudinal associations of different multimorbidity patterns with physical frailty in older adults.METHODS:
we used data from the Swedish National study on Aging and Care in Kungsholmen to generate a physical frailty measure, and clusters of participants with similar multimorbidity patterns were identified through fuzzy c-means cluster analyses. The cross-sectional association (n = 2,534) between multimorbidity clusters and physical frailty was measured through logistic regression analyses. Six- (n = 2,122) and 12-year (n = 2,140) longitudinal associations were determined through multinomial logistic regression analyses.RESULTS:
six multimorbidity patterns were identified at baseline psychiatric diseases; cardiovascular diseases, anaemia and dementia; sensory impairments and cancer; metabolic and sleep disorders; musculoskeletal, respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases; and an unspecific pattern lacking any overrepresented diseases. Cross-sectionally, each pattern was associated with physical frailty compared with the unspecific pattern. Over 6 years, the psychiatric diseases (relative risk ratio [RRR] 3.04; 95% confidence intervals [CI] 1.59-5.79); cardiovascular diseases, anaemia and dementia (RRR 2.25; 95% CI 1.13-4.49) and metabolic and sleep disorders (RRR 1.99; 95% CI 1.25-3.16) patterns were associated with incident physical frailty. The cardiovascular diseases, anaemia and dementia (RRR 4.81; 95% CI 1.59-14.60); psychiatric diseases (RRR 2.62; 95% CI 1.45-4.72) and sensory impairments and cancer (RRR 1.87; 95% CI 1.05-3.35) patterns were more associated with physical frailty, compared with the unspecific pattern, over 12 years.CONCLUSIONS:
we found that older adults with multimorbidity characterised by cardiovascular and neuropsychiatric disease patterns are most susceptible to developing physical frailty.Palavras-chave
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Fragilidade
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Etiology_studies
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Incidence_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Aged
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2021
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Article