MULTIMORBIDITY PATTERNS PREDICT THE ORDER OF PHYSICAL FRAILTY AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT OCCURRENCE
Shuomin Wang, Qianyuan Li, Qian-Li Xue, Minhui Liu · 2024
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Shuomin Wang and three co-authors report a 2024 study on which comes first in old age: a frail body or a fading mind. Older adults often carry several chronic diseases at once, and those diseases cluster in patterns. The team asked whether the pattern a person has foretells which decline shows up first.
They followed 6,055 older adults who began free of both frailty and thinking problems, for four years. Four disease patterns stood out, from heart-metabolic to cancer-led. Each pattern raised the risk of one order of decline over the other when set against having no cluster of diseases.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Shuomin Wang, Qianyuan Li, Qian-Li Xue, Minhui Liu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |