TUESDAY, Jan. 11, 2022 (HealthDay Information) — Lack of 5 or extra p.c of physique weight amongst older girls is related to a better danger for dying, in keeping with a research revealed on-line Jan. 5 within the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Lisa J. Underland, D.O., from Kids’s Hospital at Montefiore in New York Metropolis, and colleagues examined long-term weight reduction (≥5 p.c of baseline physique weight), bodily functioning, and mortality in older girls taking part within the Lengthy Life Research. The evaluation included 5,039 girls (common age, 78.76 years) with a imply follow-up of 5.4 years.
The researchers discovered that long-term weight reduction was related to a better danger for all-cause mortality (hazard ratio [HR], 1.66). There was no affiliation noticed between weight acquire and mortality or cardiovascular outcomes. Being within the highest quartile for grip power protected in opposition to all-cause mortality (HR, 0.51). When adjusting for adjustments in weight, race, historical past of coronary coronary heart illness, smoking, and diabetes, the Brief Bodily Efficiency Battery (SPPB) was related to a decrease danger for mortality (HR, 0.29). Unbiased of weight change, larger grip power and better SPPB scores have been related to decrease dangers for vascular loss of life and coronary coronary heart illness.
“Efforts must be made to enhance mobility and muscle power in older girls relatively than weight reduction,” the authors write.
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