Variable effect of comorbidity on the association of chronic cardiac failure with disability in community-dwelling older persons

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 283-292

  Marchionni, Niccoló ^a   Di Bari, Mauro ^a   Fumagalli, Stefano ^a   Ferrucci, Luigi ^b   Baldereschi, Giorgio ^a   Timpanelli, Maurizio ^c   Masotti, Giulio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b INRCA   (Italy)

^c Dept of Family Medicine USL 11 ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Cardiac failure; Chronic diseases; Comorbidity; Disability

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CITY; COMMUNITY; COMORBIDITY; DISABILITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ITALY; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE; URINE INCONTINENCE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 0030293133     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4943(96)00737-6     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Aronow, W.S. and Kronzon, I. (1993): Effect of enalapril on congestive heart failure treated with diuretics in elderly patients with prior myocardial infarction and normal left ventricular ejection fraction. Am. J. Cardiol., 71, 602-604.
2. Berkman, L.F., Leo-Summers, L. and Horwitz, R.I. (1992): Emotional support and survival after myocardial infarction. Ann. Intern. Med., 117, 1003-1009.
3. Bild, D.E., Fitzpatrick, A., Fried, L.P., Wong, N.D., Haan, M.N., Lyles, M., Bovill, E., Polak, J.F. and Schulz, R. (1993): Age-related trends in cardiovascular morbidity and physical functioning in the elderly: the Cardiovascular Health Study. J. Am. Geriatr. Soc., 41, 1047-1056.
4. Bittner, V., Weiner, D.H., Yusuf, S., Rogers, W.J., McIntyre, K.M., Bangdiwala, S.I., Kronenberg, M.W., Kostis, J.B., Kohn, R.M., Guillotte, M., Greenberg, B., Woods, P.A. and Bourassa, M.G., for the SOLVD Investigators (1993): Prediction of mortality and morbidity with a 6-minute walk test in patients with left ventricular dysfunction. J. Am. Med. Assoc., 270, 1702-1707.
5. Blackburn, H., Keys, A., Simonson, E., Rautaharu, P. and Punsar, S. (1960): The electrocardiogram in population studies. A classification system. Circulation, 21, 1160-1175.
6. Bonneux, L., Barendregt, J.J., Meeter, K., Bonsel, G.J. and van der Maas, P.J. (1994): Estimating clinical morbidity due to ischemic heart disease and congestive heart failure: The future rise of heart failure. Am. J. Publ. Health, 84, 20-28.
7. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1994): Mortality from congestive heart failure - United States, 1980-1990. J. Am. Med. Assoc., 271, 813-814.
8. Eriksson, H., Svardsudd, K., Larsson, B., Ohlson, L.O., Tibblin, G., Welin, L. and Wilhelmsen, L. (1989): Risk factors for heart failure in the general population: the study of men born in 1913. Eur. Heart J., 10, 647-656.
9. Ettinger, W.H., Fried, L.P., Harris, T., Shemanski, L., Schulz, R. and Robbins, J., for the CHS Collaborative Research Group (1994): Self-reported causes of physical disability in older people: the cardiovascular health study. J. Am. Geriatr. Soc., 42, 1035-1044.
10. Ferrucci, L., Guralnik, J.M., Baroni, A., Tesi, G., Antonini, E. and Marchionni, N. (1991): Value of combined assessment of physical health and functional status in community-dwelling age: A prospective study in Florence, Italy. J. Gerontol., 46, M52-M56.
11. Fried, L.P., Store, D.J. and King, D.E. (1991): Diagnosis of illness presentation in the elderly. J. Am. Geriatr. Soc., 39, 117-123.
12. Ghali, J.K., Cooper, R. and Ford, E. (1990): Trends in hospitalization rates for heart failure in the United States, 1973-1986. Evidence for increasing population prevalence. Arch. Intern. Med., 150, 769-773.
13. Gillum, R.F. (1993): Epidemiology of heart failure in the United States. Am. Heart J., 126, 1042-1047.
14. Guccione, A.A., Felson, D.T., Anderson, J.J., Anthony, J.M., Zhang, Y., Wilson, P.W.F., Kelly-Hayes, M., Wolf, P.A., Kreger, B.E. and Kannel, W.B. (1994): The effects of specific medical conditions on the functional limitations of elders in the Framingham Study. Am. J. Publ. Health, 84, 351-358.
15. Guyatt, G.H. (1993): Measurement of health-related quality of life in heart failure. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol., 22 (Suppl. A), 185A-191A.
16. Heikkinen, E., Waters, W.E. and Brzezinski, Z.J. (1983): The elderly in eleven countries. A sociomedical survey. World Health Organization, Copenhagen.
17. Ho, K.K.L., Pinsky, J.L., Kannel, W.B. and Levy, D. (1993): The epidemiology of heart failure: the Framingham Study. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol., 22 (Suppl. A), 6A-13A.
18. Kannel, W.B. and Abbot, R.D. (1984): Incidence and prognosis of unrecognized myocardial infarction. An update of the Framingham study. N. Engl. J. Med., 311, 1144-1147.
19. Luchi, R.J., Taffet, G.E. and Teasdale, T.A. (1991): Congestive heart failure in the elderly. J. Am. Geriatr. Soc., 39, 810-825.
20. Mark, D.B., Lam, L.C., Lee, K.L., Clapp-Channing, N.E., Williams, R.B., Pryor, D.B., Califf, R.M. and Hlatky, M.A. (1992): Identification of patients with coronary disease at high risk for loss of employment. A prospective validation study. Circulation, 86, 1485-1494.
21. McMurray, J., McDonagh, T., Morrison, C.E. and Dargie, H.J. (1993): Trends in hospitalization for heart failure in Scotland 1980-1990. Eur. Heart J., 14, 1158-1162.
22. Pinsky, J.L., Jette, A.M., Branch, L.G., Kannel, W.B. and Feinleib, M. (1990): The Framingham disability study: relationship of various coronary heart disease manifestations to disability in older persons living in the community. Am. J. Publ. Health, 80, 1363-1368.
23. Rogers, W.J., Johnstone, D.E. and Yusuf, S., for the SOLVD Investigators (1994): Quality of life among 5025 patients with left ventricular dysfunction randomized between placebo and enalapril: The studies of left ventricular dysfunction. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol., 23, 393-398.
24. SHEP Cooperative Research Group (1991): Prevention of stroke by antihypertensive drug treatment in older persons with isolated systolic hypertension. Final results of the Systolic Hypertension in the Elderly Program (SHEP). J. Am. Med. Assoc., 265, 3255-3260.
25. The Criteria Committee of the New York Heart Association (1994): Nomenclature and criteria for diagnosis of diseases of the heart and great vessels, pp. 253. 9th edition, Little, Brown and Company, Boston.
26. Yesavage, J.A., Brink, T.L., Rose, T.L., Lum, O., Huang, V., Adey, M. and Leirer, O. (1983): Development and validation of a geriatric depression screening scale: A preliminary report. J. Psychiatr. Res., 17, 37-49.
27. Walker, S.H. and Duncan, D.B. (1967): Estimation of the probability of an event as a function of several independent variables. Biometrika, 54, 167-179.