EARLY-LIFE WAR EXPOSURE AND LATER-LIFE FRAILTY AMONG OLDER ADULTS IN VIETNAM: DOES WAR HASTEN AGING?
Zachary Zimmer, Kim Korinek, Yvette Young, Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan, Tran Khanh Toan · 2023
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Zachary Zimmer and co-authors ask whether war experienced early in life speeds up aging decades later, using older adults in Vietnam as the test case. The Vietnam Health and Aging Study surveyed war survivors now aged sixty and over. Statistical grouping sorted them into nine classes by the kinds and amounts of wartime trauma they had lived through.
Frailty, measured by counting accumulated health deficits, ran higher in the heavily exposed classes. The worst-hit combinations included intense bombing, seeing death firsthand, wartime sleep disruption, and fearing for one's life. The frailty gap between the most and least exposed equaled more than eighteen years of aging. The authors argue war trauma hastens aging itself and deserves long-term health attention in post-conflict populations worldwide.
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| CREATOR | Zachary Zimmer, Kim Korinek, Yvette Young, Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan, Tran Khanh Toan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 1 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |