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Karen Burgueno-Aguilar1, Francisco Fidencio Cons-Molina2, Daniela Garcia-Jimenez2
1Universidad Autonoma de Baja California (Facultad de Medicina Mexicali), Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. karen.burgueno@uabc.edu.mx.
Abstract:
"Dysmobility Syndrome" (DS) is a term that correlates sarcopenia and osteoporosis together with mobility disturbances, obesity, fractures, and falls. The prevalence of DS is of 74% in this study. Further research with bigger sample sizes is needed to describe if prevalence and DS characteristics are similar in other studies.
Purpose:
"Dysmobility Syndrome" (DS) correlates sarcopenia and osteoporosis together with mobility disturbances, obesity, fractures, and falls, all of which are related to adverse outcomes in the health of the elderly; however, there are no studies of DS in Mexican patients. In this study, we aimed to describe the characteristics of DS in Mexican postmenopausal women from a private practice.
Methods:
A case-series study was conducted; women of 60 years and older were invited to participate from August to December of 2019, a total of 50 patients were included. Medical history, physical tests, bone densitometry, and body composition analysis were performed; patients who met 3 or more of the following criteria were diagnosed with DS: osteoporosis: T-score ≤ -2.5, falls in a previous year, lean appendicular mass: ≤ 5.45 kg/m2, walking speed: < 1.0 m/s, grip strength: < 20 kg, and body fat percentage: > 40%.
Results:
Out of the total 50 patients, 37 were diagnosed with DS, with a prevalence of 74% in our study. Sixteen patients had a history of a non-vertebral fragility fracture, of which 14 had a diagnosis of DS (87%).
Conclusions:
DS has a high frequency in our study group, and was found to be closely related to the presence of non-vertebral fragility fractures. More research is needed to describe the prevalence and characteristics of DS with a stronger statistical significance within our population, and among others across the country, to get an extensive understanding of its presentation in Mexican women.
Key Points:
• The frequency of DS in this study is higher than the one that is described in global literature. • DS diagnosis is closely related to the antecedent of non-vertebral fragility fracture.
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