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dc.contributor.authorUchai, Shreeshti
dc.contributor.authorAndersen, Lene Frost
dc.contributor.authorThoresen, Magne
dc.contributor.authorHopstock, Laila Arnesdatter
dc.contributor.authorHjartåker, Anette
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-26T09:27:58Z
dc.date.available2024-08-26T09:27:58Z
dc.date.issued2024-05-31
dc.description.abstractIntroduction - Pre-frailty provides an ideal opportunity to prevent physical frailty and promote healthy ageing. Excess adiposity has been associated with an increased risk of pre-frailty, but limited studies have explored whether the association between adiposity measures and pre-frailty varies by social position.<p> <p>Methods - We used data from the seventh survey of the Tromsø Study (Tromsø7) conducted in 2015–2016. Our primary sample consisted of 2,945 women and 2,794 men aged ≥ 65 years. Pre-frailty was defined as the presence of one or two of the five frailty components: low grip strength, slow walking speed, exhaustion, unintentional weight loss and low physical activity. Adiposity was defined by body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), fat mass index (FMI) and visceral adipose tissue (VAT) mass. Education and subjective social position were used as measures of social position. Poisson regression with robust variance was used to assess the association between adiposity measures and pre-frailty, and the interaction term between adiposity measures and social position measures were utilised to explore whether the association varied by social position.<p> <p>Results - In our sample, 28.7% of women and 25.5% of men were pre-frail. We found sub-multiplicative interaction of BMI-defined obesity with education in women and subjective social position in men with respect to development of pre-frailty. No other adiposity measures showed significant variation by education or subjective social position. Regardless of the levels of education or subjective social position, participants with excess adiposity (high BMI, high WC, high FMI and high VAT mass) had a higher risk of pre-frailty compared to those with low adiposity.<p> <p>Conclusion - We consistently observed that women and men with excess adiposity had a greater risk of pre-frailty than those with low adiposity, with only slight variation by social position. These results emphasize the importance of preventing excess adiposity to promote healthy ageing and prevent frailty among all older adults across social strata.en_US
dc.identifier.citationUchai, Andersen, Thoresen, Hopstock, Hjartåker. Does the association between adiposity measures and pre-frailty among older adults vary by social position? Findings from the Tromsø study 2015/2016. BMC Public Health. 2024;24(1)en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2273290
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/s12889-024-18939-3
dc.identifier.issn1471-2458
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/34421
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSpringer Natureen_US
dc.relation.journalBMC Public Health
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2024 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en_US
dc.titleDoes the association between adiposity measures and pre-frailty among older adults vary by social position? Findings from the Tromsø study 2015/2016en_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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