Gender-specific sociodemographic and lifestyle factors associated with frailty status among Korean older adults
Subeen Kim, Haerang Lee, Nayeon Park, Eunseo Choi, Minji Kang · 2026
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Subeen Kim and co-workers look for frailty risk factors among older Koreans, separately for women and men. Frailty, a state of weakness that invites falls and illness, grows common with age. Their 2026 study draws on six years of national health survey data covering more than six thousand five hundred adults aged sixty-five and over, scored by a standard frailty checklist.
About one in five women was frail, against roughly one in nine men. Smoking and even sharing morning meals with family linked with higher frailty in women, a pattern the authors flag for care. For men, higher income and eating more were protective. Many chronic diseases and poor self-rated health raised risk in both sexes. Prevention, they argue, should be shaped by gender.
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| CREATOR | Subeen Kim, Haerang Lee, Nayeon Park, Eunseo Choi, Minji Kang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 59029 |
| LICENSE | CC_BY |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS |