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Frailty in older adults: evidence for a phenotypeL P Fried
Center on Aging and Health, The John Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 56:M146-56. 2001..A standardized definition has not yet been established...
Preclinical mobility disability predicts incident mobility disability in older womenL P Fried
Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 55:M43-52. 2000..The objective of this study was to determine preclinical functional predictors of incident mobility difficulty and provide evidence for a preclinical stage of disability...
Transcobalamin-II variants, decreased vitamin B12 availability and increased risk of frailtyA M Matteini
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Nutr Health Aging 14:73-7. 2010..The cross-sectional relationship between genetic variants within six candidate genes along this pathway with serum methylmalonic acid (MMA) levels and frailty was evaluated in this same population of older women...
The association of genetic variants in interleukin-1 genes with cognition: findings from the cardiovascular health studyK S Benke
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA
Exp Gerontol 46:1010-9. 2011....
Diet quality and social support: factors associated with serum carotenoid concentrations among older disabled women (the Women's Health and Aging Study)E J Nicklett
Johns Hopkins University, Center on Aging and Health, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
J Nutr Health Aging 16:511-8. 2012..This study investigated the relationship between social support (including instrumental support, emotional support, social interaction, social space, and family networks) and diet quality, as indicated by serum carotenoid levels...
Frailty and the older manJ Walston
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Geriatrics Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Med Clin North Am 83:1173-94. 1999..There is also evidence that lower levels of activity and lower caloric intake in women as compared to men may also influence the phenotype of frailty and make women more vulnerable then men to the syndrome...
Low serum selenium is associated with anemia among older adults in the United StatesR D Semba
The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Eur J Clin Nutr 63:93-9. 2009..We hypothesized that low serum selenium was associated with anemia in humans...
Association between executive attention and physical functional performance in community-dwelling older womenM C Carlson
School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 54:S262-70. 1999..This study examined whether executive attentional abilities were uniquely associated with the performance of complex, instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) in cognitively intact and physically high-functioning older women...
Racial differences in prevalence of cobalamin and folate deficiencies in disabled elderly womenS P Stabler
Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 70:911-9. 1999..Many previous investigations of cobalamin and folate status were performed in white populations...
Low serum carotenoids are associated with a decline in walking speed in older womenN Alipanah
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Nutr Health Aging 13:170-5. 2009..The aim was to determine whether total serum carotenoid concentrations, a marker for fruit and vegetable intake, and serum selenium are related to changes in walking speed in older women...
Socioeconomic status is associated with frailty: the Women's Health and Aging StudiesS L Szanton
Johns Hopkins University Center on Aging and Health, 525 N Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205 424, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 64:63-7. 2010..A study was undertaken to determine (1) the extent to which low SES was associated with increased odds of frailty and (2) whether race was associated with frailty, independent of SES...
Vitamin D deficiency among older women with and without disabilityR D Semba
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, and the Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry Program, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 72:1529-34. 2000..Vitamin D deficiency is associated with bone loss and bone fractures, and the identification of vulnerable populations is important to clinical practice and public health...
Frailty status and altered dynamics of circulating energy metabolism hormones after oral glucose in older womenR R Kalyani
Division of Endocrinology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Nutr Health Aging 16:679-86. 2012..Frailty status is associated with altered glucose-insulin dynamics. Here, we sought to investigate whether alteration in the dynamics of other circulating energy metabolism hormones after oral glucose is associated with frailty status...
Serum carotenoids and pulmonary function in older community-dwelling womenR D Semba
Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
J Nutr Health Aging 16:291-6. 2012..Serum carotenoids are considered the most reliable indicator of fruit and vegetable intake...
Association of IGF-I levels with muscle strength and mobility in older womenA R Cappola
Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institution, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 86:4139-46. 2001..These findings suggest a role for IGF-I in disability as well as a potential target population for interventions to raise IGF-I levels...
Markers of B-vitamin deficiency and frailty in older womenA M Matteini
Johns Hopkins Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Nutr Health Aging 12:303-8. 2008..To evaluate the association between markers of vitamins B12, B6 and folate deficiency and the geriatric syndrome of frailty...
Denture use, malnutrition, frailty, and mortality among older women living in the communityR D Semba
The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Nutr Health Aging 10:161-7. 2006..The relationships between denture use, malnutrition, frailty, and mortality in older women have not been well characterized...
Serum antioxidants, inflammation, and total mortality in older womenJ Walston
School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
Am J Epidemiol 163:18-26. 2006..54, 95% confidence interval: 1.03, 2.32). These findings suggest that specific antioxidant nutrients may play an important role in suppressing IL-6 levels in disabled older women...
Self-reported preclinical disability identifies older women with early declines in performance and early diseaseL P Fried
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 54:889-901. 2001..They also suggest new avenues for screening and intervention to prevent disability...
Predicting the risk of mobility difficulty in older women with screening nomograms: the Women's Health and Aging Study IIP H Chaves
Center on Aging and Health, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2024 E Monument St, Suite 2 600, Baltimore, MD 21205 2223, USA
Arch Intern Med 160:2525-33. 2000..The goal of this study was to develop easy-to-use clinical nomograms for estimation of the probability of incident mobility difficulty...
Allostatic load and frailty in the women's health and aging studiesS L Szanton
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Biol Res Nurs 10:248-56. 2009..The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether allostatic load (AL) was associated with the geriatric syndrome of frailty in older community-dwelling women...
Sunlight exposure and risk of lens opacities in a population-based study: the Salisbury Eye Evaluation projectS K West
Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
JAMA 280:714-8. 1998..Exposure to UV-B radiation in sunlight has been shown to increase the risk of cataract formation in high-risk occupational groups, but risk to the population has not been quantified...
Correlates of performance-based measures of muscle function in the elderly: the Cardiovascular Health StudyC H Hirsch
Department of Medicine, University of California, Davis, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 52:M192-200. 1997....
The association of multiple visual impairments with self-reported visual disability: SEE projectG S Rubin
Lions Vision Center, Department of Biostatistics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 42:64-72. 2001..This report examines the relationship between psychophysical measures of visual impairment and self-reported difficulty with everyday visual tasks in a population-based sample of individuals 65 years of age and older...
Left ventricular mass in the elderly. The Cardiovascular Health StudyJ M Gardin
Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, USA
Hypertension 29:1095-103. 1997....
Importance of generativity for healthy aging in older womenM C Carlson
Department of Mental Hygiene, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Aging (Milano) 12:132-40. 2000....
Physical and cognitive performance and burden of anticholinergics, sedatives, and ACE inhibitors in older womenY J Cao
National Institute on Aging Intramural Research Program, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Clin Pharmacol Ther 83:422-9. 2008....
A cross-sectional study of vitamin C and cognitive function in older adults: the differential effects of genderR Sato
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Nutr Health Aging 10:37-44. 2006..These mixed results do not provide strong evidence of an association between vitamin C concentrations or intake and cognitive function...
IL-6 gene variation is not associated with increased serum levels of IL-6, muscle, weakness, or frailty in older womenJ Walston
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA
Exp Gerontol 40:344-52. 2005..These results suggest that IL-6 gene variation may not be an important factor in the determination of elevated IL-6 levels and related phenotypes found in older women...
Diabetes, hyperglycaemia and mortality in disabled older women: The Women's Health and Ageing Study IC S Blaum
Department of Medicine, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0926, USA
Diabet Med 22:543-50. 2005..We evaluated whether cardiovascular disease, comorbidities, or degree of hyperglycaemia, particularly severe hyperglycaemia, affected diabetes-related mortality risk in older, disabled women...
Building communities that promote successful agingL P Fried
Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
West J Med 167:216-9. 1997..Gerontologically designed opportunities for contribution on a large social scale could well provide a national approach to primary prevention to maintain health and function in older adults...
