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Prevalence of healthy aging among community dwelling adults age 70 and older from five European countries
- Source :
- BMC Geriatrics, BMC Geriatrics, 2022, 22 (1), pp.174. ⟨10.1186/s12877-022-02755-8⟩, Schietzel, Simeon; Chocano-Bedoya, Patricia O; Sadlon, Angelique; Gagesch, Michael; Willett, Walter C; Orav, Endel J; Kressig, Reto W; Vellas, Bruno; Rizzoli, René; da Silva, José A P; Blauth, Michael; Kanis, John A; Egli, Andreas; Bischoff-Ferrari, Heike A (2022). Prevalence of healthy aging among community dwelling adults age 70 and older from five European countries. BMC Geriatrics, 22(1), p. 174. BioMed Central 10.1186/s12877-022-02755-8
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2022.
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Abstract
- Background To compare the prevalence of healthy aging among adults age 70 and older from 5 European countries recruited for the DO-HEALTH clinical trial. Participants were selected for absence of prior major health events. Methods Cross-sectional analysis of DO-HEALTH baseline data. All 2,157 participants (mean age 74.9, SD 4.4; 61.7% women) were included and 2,123 had data for all domains of the healthy aging status (HA) definition. HA was assessed based on the Nurses` Health Study (NHS) definition requiring four domains: no major chronic diseases, no disabilities, no cognitive impairment (Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA ≥25), no mental health limitation (GDS-5 Results Overall, 41.8% of DO-HEALTH participants were healthy agers with significant variability by country: Austria (Innsbruck) 58.3%, Switzerland (Zurich, Basel, Geneva) 51.2%, Germany (Berlin) 37.6%, France (Toulouse) 36.7% and Portugal (Coimbra) 8.8% (p Conclusions Despite the same inclusion and exclusion criteria preselecting relatively healthy adults age 70 years and older, HA prevalence in DO-HEALTH varied significantly between countries and was highest in participants from Austria and Switzerland, lowest in participants from Portugal. Independent of country, younger age, female gender, lower BMI and better physical function were associated with HA. Trial registration DO-HEALTH was registered under the protocol NCT01745263 at the International Trials Registry (clinicaltrials.gov), and under the protocol number 2012–001249-41 at the Registration at the European Community Clinical Trial System (EudraCT).
- Subjects :
- Gerontology
Male
11221 Department of Aging Medicine
[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]
2717 Geriatrics and Gerontology
610 Medicine & health
Healthy Aging
360 Social problems & social services
Prevalence
Medicine
Humans
Healthy aging
Aged
Hand Strength
business.industry
Senior
DO-HEALTH
[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio]
Older
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Independent Living
Geriatrics and Gerontology
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01745263 and 14712318
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMC Geriatrics, BMC Geriatrics, 2022, 22 (1), pp.174. ⟨10.1186/s12877-022-02755-8⟩, Schietzel, Simeon; Chocano-Bedoya, Patricia O; Sadlon, Angelique; Gagesch, Michael; Willett, Walter C; Orav, Endel J; Kressig, Reto W; Vellas, Bruno; Rizzoli, René; da Silva, José A P; Blauth, Michael; Kanis, John A; Egli, Andreas; Bischoff-Ferrari, Heike A (2022). Prevalence of healthy aging among community dwelling adults age 70 and older from five European countries. BMC Geriatrics, 22(1), p. 174. BioMed Central 10.1186/s12877-022-02755-8 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-02755-8>
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....af341fe0843494a728325b7ef9552670