Unraveling the relationship between high-sensitivity C-reactive protein and frailty : evidence from longitudinal cohort study and genetic analysis

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BACKGROUND: This study aimed to investigate the association of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) with incident frailty as well as its effects on pre-frailty progression and regression among middle-aged and older adults.

METHODS: Based on the frailty index (FI) calculated with 41 items, 6890 eligible participants without frailty at baseline from China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) were categorized into health, pre-frailty, and frailty groups. Logistic regression models were used to estimate the longitudinal association between baseline hs-CRP and incident frailty. Furthermore, a series of genetic approaches were conducted to confirm the causal relationship between CRP and frailty, including Linkage disequilibrium score regression (LDSC), pleiotropic analysis, and Mendelian randomization (MR). Finally, we evaluated the association of hs-CRP with pre-frailty progression and regression.

RESULTS: The risk of developing frailty was 1.18 times (95% CI: 1.03-1.34) higher in participants with high levels of hs-CRP at baseline than low levels of hs-CRP participants during the 3-year follow-up. MR analysis suggested that genetically determined hs-CRP was potentially positively associated with the risk of frailty (OR: 1.06, 95% CI: 1.03-1.08). Among 5241 participants with pre-frailty at baseline, we found pre-frailty participants with high levels of hs-CRP exhibit increased odds of progression to frailty (OR: 1.39, 95% CI: 1.09-1.79) and decreased odds of regression to health (OR: 0.84, 95% CI: 0.72-0.98) when compared with participants with low levels of hs-CRP.

CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that reducing systemic inflammation is significant for developing strategies for frailty prevention and pre-frailty reversion in the middle-aged and elderly population.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

Enthalten in:

BMC geriatrics - 24(2024), 1 vom: 04. März, Seite 222

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Luo, Yu-Feng [VerfasserIn]
Cheng, Zi-Jian [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yan-Fei [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Xi-Yuan [VerfasserIn]
Lei, Shu-Feng [VerfasserIn]
Deng, Fei-Yan [VerfasserIn]
Ren, Wen-Yan [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Long-Fei [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

9007-41-4
C-Reactive Protein
Cohort study
Frailty
GWAS
Genetics
Hs-CRP
Journal Article

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 06.03.2024

Date Revised 07.03.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s12877-024-04836-2

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369288785