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PLOS ONE
Volume 13, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0201351
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- National Health Research Institutes of Taiwan [BS-097-SP-04, PH-098-SP-02, PH-099-SP-01, PH-100-SP-01, PH-101-SP-01, PH-102-SP-01, PH-103-SP-01, PH-104-SP-01]
- Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan [MOST104-2633-B-400-001]
- Center for Sustainability Science of Academia Sinica of Taiwan [AS-103-SS-A104-236t]
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Background The relationship between subjective cognitive decline and frailty, two components of the socalled reversible cognitive frailty, in the elderly remains unclear. This study aims to elucidate whether this association exists, independent of confounding factors such as nutritional status, kidney function, inflammation, and insulin resistance. Methods 2386 participants (>= 65 years of age) selected from the Healthy Aging Longitudinal Study in Taiwan (HALST) study. Fried frailty phenotype was adopted to quantify frailty status. We classified cognitive status into two categoriessubjective cognitive decline (SCD), and normal cognitionand used polytomous logistic regressions to investigate the associations between SCD and frailty. Results There were 188 (7.88%), 1228 (51.47%), and 970 (40.65%) participants with frailty, prefrailty, and robustness, respectively. Compared to those with normal cognition, elders with SCD were more likely to have pre-frailty (odds ratio [OR]: 1.36, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.10-1.67, p = 0.004) or frailty (OR: 1.78, 95% CI: 1.23-2.58, p = 0.002) after adjusting for age, gender, education level, comorbidity, nutritional status, kidney function, and biochemical-related factors. Conclusions A significant association between subjective cognitive decline and frailty was revealed in this study. Subjective cognitive decline was positively associated with pre-frailty or frailty even after adjusting for potential confounding factors. Our results can provide useful references in understanding mechanisms and developing suitable preventive strategies for the elderly with reversible cognitive frailty.
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