Examining the impact of chronic diseases on activities of daily living of middle-aged and older adults aged 45 years and above in China: a nationally representative cohort study
Zhonghua Ai, Churou Tang, Xuan Wen, Karthikesu Kartheepan, Songyuan Tang · 2024
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Zhonghua Ai and co-authors measure how chronic disease erodes daily living in older China in a study whose head dates it 2023. China is aging faster than almost any nation. With age come chronic diseases, and with them trouble bathing, dressing, and eating unaided. Self-care years are the prize at stake.
A national cohort of over ten thousand adults aged forty-five and up began in 2011. Follow-up ran through 2018. Survival-style models weighed each disease's push toward daily-living disability. The analysis aimed to rank which conditions cost independence fastest. Delaying that loss extends the healthy span policy can promise. The findings give prevention a clear order of attack.
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| CREATOR | Zhonghua Ai, Churou Tang, Xuan Wen, Karthikesu Kartheepan, Songyuan Tang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |