Association Between Arterial Stiffness, Frailty and Fall-Related Injuries in Older Adults.

Purpose: This study was conducted to investigate the relationships between arterial stiffness, frailty and fall-related injuries among community-dwelling older adults.

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional study of a random sample of older adults aged 60 years and older was conducted. Main study parameters: arterial stiffness was measured by the determining the cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI); Frailty status was defined using a 7-item frailty screening scale, developed in Russia.

Low cholesterol levels are associated with a high mortality risk in older adults without statins therapy: An externally validated cohort study.

Background: The relationship of total cholesterol (TC) levels with mortality among older adults without statin therapy has not been fully studied.

Aims: To examine the relationship between TC and all-cause mortality in adults aged 65 years and older in Russia without statin therapy.

Methods: This was a population-based prospective cohort study of community-dwelling people aged 65 years and older in Russia.

Validation of a new mortality risk prediction model for people 65 years and older in northwest Russia: The Crystal risk score.

Background: Prediction models help to make decisions about further management in clinical practice. This study aims to develop a mortality risk score based on previously identified risk predictors and to perform internal and external validations.

Methods: In a population-based prospective cohort study of 611 community-dwelling individuals aged 65+ in St.

Short Physical Performance Battery and all-cause mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: The Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) is a well-established tool to assess lower extremity physical performance status. Its predictive ability for all-cause mortality has been sparsely reported, but with conflicting results in different subsets of participants. The aim of this study was to perform a meta-analysis investigating the relationship between SPPB score and all-cause mortality.

Predictors of short-term mortality, cognitive and physical decline in older adults in northwest Russia: a population-based prospective cohort study.

Background: The classical phenotype, accumulated deficit model and self-report approach of frailty were found not useful in older adults in northwest Russia. More research is needed to identify predictors of adverse outcomes in this population.

Aim: The aim of this study is to identify predictors of mortality, autonomy and cognitive decline in a population that is characterized by a high cardiovascular morbidity and mortality rate.

Do commonly used frailty models predict mortality, loss of autonomy and mental decline in older adults in northwestern Russia? A prospective cohort study.

Background: Frailty prevalence differs across countries depending on the models used to assess it that are based on various conceptual and operational definitions. This study aims to assess the clinical validity of three frailty models among community-dwelling older adults in north-western Russia where there is a higher incidence of cardiovascular disease and lower life expectancy than in European countries.

Methods: The Crystal study is a population-based prospective cohort study in Kolpino, St.