Cachexia and Cognitive Function in the Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Mediation Effects of Oral Health
| Autor: | CW Kwan, Xue Bai, Rick Yiu Cho Kwan, Iris Chi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Gerontology
Male Cachexia 030309 nutrition & dietetics Psychological intervention Medicine (miscellaneous) Oral Health Oral health 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Cognition Secondary analysis medicine Humans Cognitive Dysfunction 030212 general & internal medicine Aged 0303 health sciences Nutrition and Dietetics business.industry digestive oral and skin physiology medicine.disease Dry mouth Malnutrition Swallowing problems Female Independent Living Geriatrics and Gerontology medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | The journal of nutrition, healthaging. 24(2) |
| ISSN: | 1760-4788 |
| Popis: | Cognitive impairment and poor oral health are common problems in older adults and are associated with malnutrition. However, it is unclear how they are related to cachexia in community-dwelling older adults. The aim of this study was to examine the relationships among cachexia, cognitive function, and oral health in community-dwelling older adults. This study is a secondary analysis of a data-set. Data were collected in the community setting on older adults who applied for government-funded long-term care services in Hong Kong in 2017. Subjects were community-dwelling and aged ≥60 years. The outcome variable was cachexia. The predictors were cognitive function and oral health. The covariates included demographics and comorbidities associated with cachexia or malnutrition. Path analysis was employed to examine the associations among cachexia, cognitive function, and oral health using the software SAS/STAT and Mplus. This analysis included 12,940 subjects. The prevalence of cachexia was 1.3%. Cognitive function was also found to have a direct effect on the oral health indicators of chewing problems (OR=1.073, p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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