The frailty index in Europeans: association with age and mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

the frailty index (FI) is an approach to the operationalisation of frailty based on accumulation of deficits. It has been less studied in Europeans.

Objective

to construct sex-specific FIs from a large sample of Europeans and study their associations with age and mortality.

Design

longitudinal population-based survey.

Setting

the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE, http://share-dev.mpisoc.mpg.de/).

Subjects

a total of 16,217 females and 13,688 males aged ≥50 from wave 1 (2004-05). Mortality data were collected between 2005 and 2006 (mean follow-up: 2.4 years).

Methods

regression curve estimations between age and an FI constructed as per the standard procedure. Logistic regressions were used to assess the relative e

SUBMITTER: Romero-Ortuno R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3424051 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature