The Effects of Combinations of Cognitive Impairment and Pre-frailty on Adverse Outcomes from a Prospective Community-Based Cohort Study of Older Chinese People

The Effects of Combinations of Cognitive Impairment and Pre-frailty on Adverse Outcomes from a Prospective Community-Based Cohort Study of Older Chinese People

To examine how various combinations of cognitive impairment (overall performance and specific domains) and pre-frailty predict risks of adverse outcomes; and to determine whether cognitive frailty may be defined as the combination of cognitive impairment and the presence of pre-frailty. Community-ba...

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Veröffentlicht in:Frontiers in medicine 2018-03, Vol.5, p.50-50
Hauptverfasser: Yu, Ruby, Morley, John E, Kwok, Timothy, Leung, Jason, Cheung, Osbert, Woo, Jean
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Sprache:eng
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cognitive frailty
cognitive impairment
frailty
length of hospital stay
Medicine
mortality
physical limitation
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Zusammenfassung:To examine how various combinations of cognitive impairment (overall performance and specific domains) and pre-frailty predict risks of adverse outcomes; and to determine whether cognitive frailty may be defined as the combination of cognitive impairment and the presence of pre-frailty. Community-based cohort study. Chinese men and women (  = 3,491) aged 65+ without dementia, Parkinson's disease and/or frailty at baseline. Frailty was characterized using the Cardiovascular Health Study criteria. Overall cognitive impairment was defined by a Cantonese Mini-Mental Status Examination (CMMSE) total score (
ISSN:2296-858X
2296-858X
DOI:10.3389/fmed.2018.00050