Multidimensional frailty connection in older patients with diabetes mellitus

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) experience accelerated aging and, thus, a high prevalence of frailty. Our aim is to outline the type of frailty and prefrailty from a multidimensional perspective and the interaction of these dimensions in this scenery.

MATERIAL AND METHODS: Observational study of patients with DM over 60 years-old. Variables related to nutrition, cognitive and emotional status, physical and instrumental functional capacity and social resources were collected. They were divided into three groups (robust, prefrail and frail) according to the Fried scale. Each of the variables in the groups were compared and a correspondence analysis was carried out to see the influence of some dimensions with others in each stage of frailty.

RESULTS: 188 patients (mean age 72.6 + 7.5) were analysed. Of them, 105 patients had prefrailty and 66 were frail. With the exception of social resources, the rest of the variables had an increasing prevalence depending on the stage of frailty. However, in the correspondence analysis (with 22.9% of variation explained by two dimensions) it was only patients with frailty who were associated with worse functional capacity, cognitive and emotional situation and mild to moderate social incapacity.

CONCLUSIONS: In our sample there was a high prevalence of prefrailty, and frailty associated with an increase in the prevalence of other different dimensions except social resources. However, the interaction between these dimensions was only evident in the case of patients with frailty.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Revista clinica espanola - (2024) vom: 10. Apr.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gamero-Sánchez, M Del Carmen [VerfasserIn]
Barreto, I [VerfasserIn]
Arévalo-Lorido, J C [VerfasserIn]
Vázquez-Jarén, E [VerfasserIn]
Maese-Calvo, J [VerfasserIn]
Mayoral-Testón, N [VerfasserIn]
Carretero-Gómez, J [VerfasserIn]
Fernández-Bergés, D [VerfasserIn]

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Aptitud física
Comorbiditiy
Comorbilidad
Diabetes mellitus
Fragilidad
Frailty
Journal Article
Physical fitness

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Date Revised 17.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

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10.1016/j.rceng.2024.04.007

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NLM370980379