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[Frequency of successful aging and frailty. Associated risk factors]
Karla Berenice Carrazco-Peña1, Katia Farías-Moreno1, Benjamín Trujillo-Hernández2
1Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Colima, Colima (Colima), México.
Objective:
To determine the frequency of successful aging (SA) and its relationship with frailty in an elderly population.
Material And Methods:
An analytical cross-sectional study of subjects ≥60 years of age seen as outpatients in a general hospital. Successful aging was defined as scores of ≥ 90 in the Barthel index and ≤ 2 in the Pfeiffer test. Frailty was determined using the Fried criteria.
Results:
The study included 400 subjects (272 women and 128 men), with a mean age of 71.6±8.2 years. The SA frequency was 40.4%. frail status was statistically higher in non-successful aging subjects than in SA subjects (161.7 versus 7.9%; P<.001). Women were more frequently frail, while being a pensioner/retired and married were associated less frequently with frailty.
Conclusions:
Successful aging is associated with a lower level of frailty.
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