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Association between Oral Frailty and Dietary Variety among Community-Dwelling Older Persons: A Cross-Sectional Study
- Source :
- The journal of nutrition, healthaging. 25(3)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- To examine the association between the severity of oral frailty (OF), which is one of the comprehensive oral functions evaluated, and dietary variety in community-dwelling older persons.Cross-sectional study.Community-based.A total of 769 community-dwelling older persons aged 65 and over.We examined basic demographic information, functional status, cognitive status, depressive symptoms, medical history, and oral functions of the participants.OF was defined by 1-2 and 3 or more of 6 items of oral function evaluation in the pre-oral frailty and oral frailty groups, respectively. Dietary variety was assessed using the dietary variety score (DVS). The participants were categorized into 3 groups for evaluation: those with a low score (0-2), medium score (3-5), and high score (≥6). Ordinal logistic regression analysis was performed to examine the association between OF and DVS.The rate of OF in the participants was 21.6%, and its severity was significantly associated with DVS after adjusting for potential confounders (Pre-OF; adjusted odds ratio [OR] = 1.687, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.219-2.335, OF; adjusted OR = 2.857, 95% CI = 1.489-5.484).The severity of OF was significantly associated with DVS in community-dwelling older persons. This suggests that DVS may be useful in understanding the effects of OF on the nutritional status. Further longitudinal studies are needed to elucidate the association between OF and DVS.
- Subjects :
- Gerontology
Male
030309 nutrition & dietetics
Cross-sectional study
Frail Elderly
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Nutritional Status
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Oral function
Medicine
Humans
Medical history
030212 general & internal medicine
Longitudinal Studies
Association (psychology)
Geriatric Assessment
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
0303 health sciences
Nutrition and Dietetics
Frailty
business.industry
Confounding
Odds ratio
Confidence interval
Diet
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Ordered logit
Independent Living
Geriatrics and Gerontology
business
Mouth Diseases
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17604788
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The journal of nutrition, healthaging
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3514af0e6755926d48442c4fb4d207e9