The Frailty Index in centenarians and their offspring.

Autor: Arosio, Beatrice, Ferri, E., Casati, M., Mari, D., Vitale, G., Cesari, M.
Zdroj: Aging Clinical & Experimental Research; Nov2019, Vol. 31 Issue 11, p1685-1688, 4p
Abstrakt: Frailty has been indicated as a way for capturing biological aging of the individual and Frailty Index (FI) may serve for this purpose. This study designed the FI in a cohort of centenarians, their offspring and control subjects sex- and age-matched with offspring. The FI mean value was 0.47 (SD 0.13) in centenarians, 0.15 (SD 0.12) in their offspring, and 0.22 (SD 0.14) in controls (p < 0.001). The difference between offspring and controls was statistically significant (p = 0.003). The correlation between FI and age was significant in offspring (r = 0.46, p < 0.001), close to significance in controls (r = 0.25, p = 0.08) and not significant in centenarians. Our study confirms that FI is a marker of biological age useful to discriminate different degrees of frailty even at extremely advanced age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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