Publications by authors named "Johnathan Ross"
Article Synopsis
- Type 2 diabetes and obesity lead to higher healthcare costs and are linked to accelerated aging, but the exact financial impact of this aging on healthcare expenses is not fully understood.
- A study involving adults aged 45-76 with type 2 diabetes randomly assigned participants to a weight loss intervention or diabetes support, measuring their biological aging through a frailty index.
- Results showed that greater frailty was associated with significantly higher healthcare costs, while intensive lifestyle intervention helped reduce costs in the initial years, indicating frailty as a potential indicator for predicting healthcare expenses in this population.
Introduction/purpose: Lower cardiorespiratory fitness and obesity may accelerate aging processes. The degree to which changes in fitness and body mass index (BMI) may alter the rate of aging may be important for planning treatment. We assessed cross-sectional and longitudinal associations that cardiorespiratory fitness and BMI had with a deficit accumulation frailty index (FI).
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