Comparison of two frailty measures in the conselice study of brain ageing

Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 278-281

  Lucicesare, A ^a   Hubbard, R E ^b   Fallah, N ^b   Forti, P ^a   Searle, S D ^b   Mitnitski, A ^b   Ravaglia, G ^a   Rockwood, K ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aged; Frailty; Frailty index; Mortality

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSELICE STUDY OF BRAIN AGING SCORE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRAILTY INDEX; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; VALIDITY; AGE; AGING; BRAIN; DISABILITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; MORTALITY; PROCEDURES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 77951829658     PISSN: 12797707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12603-010-0061-6     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Pel Littel RE, Schuurmans MJ, Emmelot Vonk MH, Verhaar HJ. Frailty: defining and measuring of a concept. J Nutr Health Aging. 2009; 13(4):390-394
2. Bergman H, Ferrucci L, Guralnik J et al. Frailty: an emerging research and clinical paradigm-issues and controversies. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2007;62:731-737
3. Izaks GJ, Westendorp RG. III or just old? Towards a conceptual framework of the relation between aging and disease. BMC Geriatrics 2003;3:7.
4. Newman AB, Gottdiener JS, Mcburnie MA et al. Associations of subclinical cardiovascular disease with frailty. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2001;56(3):M158-66.
5. Abate M, Di Iorio A, Di Renzo D, Paganelli R, Saggini R, Abate G. Frailty in the elderly: The physical dimension. Eura Medicophys. 2007;43(3):407-415
6. Fried LP, Tangen CM, Walston J, et al. Frailty in older adults: Evidence for a phenotype. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2001;56(3):M146-56.
7. Chin A Paw MJ, Dekker JM, Feskens EJ, Schouten EG, Kromhout D. How to select a frail elderly population? A comparison of three working definitions. J Clin Epidemiol. 1999;52(11):1015-1021
8. Klein BE, Klein R, Knudtson MD, Lee KE. Frailty, morbidity and survival. Arch Gerontol Geriatr. 2005;41(2):141-149
9. Abellan van Kan G, Rolland YM, Morley JE, Vellas B. Frailty: Toward a clinical definition. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2008;9(2):71-72
10. Rolland Y, Lauwers-Cances V, Cesari M, Vellas B, Pahor M, Grandjean H. Physical performance measures as predictors of mortality in a cohort of community-dwelling older French women. Eur J Epidemiol. 2006;21(2):113-122
11. Bauer JM, Sieber CC. Sarcopenia and frailty: a clinician's controversial point of view. Exp Gerontol. 2008;43(7):674-678
12. Hogan DB, MacKnight C, Bergman H. Steering Committee, Canadian Initiative on Frailty and Aging. Models, definitions, and criteria of frailty. Aging-Clin Exp Res 2003;15(3 Suppl):1-29.
13. Studenski S, Hayes RP, Leibowitz RQ, Bode R, Lavery L, Walston J, et al. Clinical global impression of change in physical frailty: Development of a measure based on clinical judgment J Am Geriatr Soc. 2004 Sep;52(9):1560-1566
14. Amici A, Baratta A, Linguanti A et al. The Marigliano-Cacciafesta polypathological scale: A tool for assessing fragility. Arch Gerontol Geriatr. 2008;46(3):327-334
15. Rolfson DB, Majumdar SR, Tsuyuki RT, Tahir A, Rockwood K. Validity and reliability of the edmonton frail scale. Age Ageing. 2006 Sep;35(5):526-529
16. Ravaglia G, Forti P, Lucicesare A, Pisacane N, Rietti E, Patterson C. Development of an easy prognostic score for frailty outcomes in the aged. Age Ageing. 2008;37(2): 161-166
17. Kulminski AM, Ukraintseva SV, Akushevich IV, Arbeev KG, Yashin AI. Cumulative index of health deficiencies as a characteristic of long life. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2007;55(6):935-940
18. Rockwood K, Mitnitski A. Frailty in relation to the accumulation of deficits. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2007;62(7):722-727
19. Searle SD, Mitnitski A, Gahbauer EA, Gill TM, Rockwood K. A standard procedure for creating a frailty index. BMC Geriatr. 2008;8:24.
20. Dupre ME, Gu D, Warner DF, Yi Z. Frailty and type of death among older adults in China: prospective cohort study. BMJ. 2009;338:b1175.
21. Mitnitski A, Song X, Skoog I et al. Relative fitness and frailty of elderly men and women in developed countries and their relationship with mortality. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2005;53:2184-2189
22. Kulminski AM, Ukraintseva SV, Kulminskaya IV et al. Cumulative deficits better characterize susceptibility to death in elderly people than phenotypic frailty: lessons from the Cardiovascular Health Study. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2008;56:898-903.
23. Ravaglia G, Forti P, Maioli F et al. Conselice study: A population based survey of brain aging in a muncipality of the Emilia Romagna region: (A.U.S.L. ravenna). design and methods. Arch Gerontol Geriatr 2001;7:313-324
24. Mitnitski A, Bao L, Rockwood K. Going from bad to worse: A stochastic model of transitions in deficit accumulation, in relation to mortality. Mech Ageing Dev. 2006;127(5):490-493
25. Rockwood K, Andrew M, Mitnitski A. A comparison of two approaches to measuring frailty in elderly people. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2007;62(7):738-743
26. Gavrilov LA, Gavrilova NS. Reliability theory of aging and longevity. In Handbook of the Biology of Aging. 2007 6th Edition: Academic Press.
27. Rockwood K. What would make a definition of frailty successful? Age Ageing. 2005;34(5):432-434
28. Curb JD, Ceria-Ulep CD, Rodriguez BL et al. Performance-based measures of physical function for high-function populations. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2006;54(5):737-42.
29. Espinoza SE, Hazuda HP. Frailty in older Mexican-American and European-American adults: Is there an ethnic disparity? J Am Geriatr Soc. 2008;56(9):1744-1749
30. Martin FC, Brighton P. Frailty: Different tools for different purposes? Age Ageing. 2008;37(2):129-131
31. Jones DM, Song X, Rockwood K. Operationalizing a frailty index from a standardized comprehensive geriatric assessment. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2004;52(11):1929-1933
32. Jones D, Song X, Mitnitski A, Rockwood K. Evaluation of a frailty index based on a comprehensive geriatric assessment in a population based study of elderly Canadians. Aging Clin Exp Res. 2005;17(6):465-471