Analysis of Plantar Tactile Sensitivity in Older Women after Conventional Proprioceptive Training and Exergame.

Objective: To evaluate and compare the effects of conventional proprioceptive training and games with motion monitoring on plantar tactile sensitivity in older women.

Methods: A randomized controlled clinical trial, with 50 older women randomized into three groups: conventional proprioception (n = 17), games with motion monitoring (n = 16), and the control (n = 17). They underwent 24 intervention sessions, three times a week, for eight weeks.

Factors associated with frailty syndrome in older adults with three- and four-criteria clustering.

This study aimed to identify the main clusters of diagnostic criteria pertaining to frailty syndrome as well as the factors associated with the occurrence of frailty without diagnostic criteria clusters and with clusters of three and four criteria. This is a cross-sectional study, carried out with 216 older adults. In order to determine the dependent variable, a combination of the following criteria for frailty syndrome diagnostic criteria was used: unintentional weight loss, exhaustion, muscle weakness, a low level of physical activity, and a slow gait speed.

[Maximum expiratory pressure is a good predictor of the incidence of the frailty syndrome in elderly men].

This article aims to investigate the association between maximal inspiratory pressure (MIP) and maximal expiratory pressure (MEP) with the incidence of frailty syndrome (FS), in addition to testing the predictive ability of MIP and MEP to discriminate FS in elderly adults, according to sex. It is a longitudinal study with a five-year follow-up period (2014-2019), carried out with 104 elderly adults registered in the Family Health Strategy of a municipality in Bahia. The incidence of frailty syndrome was diagnosed according to criteria proposed by Fried et al.

Are maximum respiratory pressures predictors of sarcopenia in the elderly?

Objective: To compare maximum respiratory pressures and spirometric parameters among elderly individuals classified as having no sarcopenia, probable sarcopenia, and confirmed sarcopenia, and to test the ability of these variables to discriminate sarcopenia in a community-dwelling elderly population.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study involving 221 elderly (≥ 60 years of age) individuals of both sexes. Sarcopenia was diagnosed in accordance with the new consensus of the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People.

Factors influencing gait speed in community-dwelling older women: A Bayesian approach.

Background: Human gait is a complex task resulting from the interaction of sensory perception, muscle force output, and sensory-motor integration, which declines with the aging process and impacts gait speed in older women.

Research Question: What are the separate and combined impacts of sensory-motor factors on gait speed of older women?

Methods: Sixty healthy older women (69.3 ± 5.

Anthropometric indicators as screening tools for sarcopenia in older adult women.

Objective: To investigate the association between sarcopenia and different anthropometric indicators, and identify the best indicator to discriminate sarcopenia in community-dwelling older adult women.

Method: Data from 173 older adult women (≥60 years), living in Lafaiete Coutinho, a small-sized city in northeastern Brazil, were analyzed. Sarcopenia was defined based on the European consensus on definition and diagnosis using three components: muscle mass, muscle strength and performance.

Reduced functional capacity of community-dwelling elderly: a longitudinal study.

This study aimed to identify the incidence and risk factors for the reduced functional capacity of community-dwelling elderly. A prospective, two-stage cohort study was conducted in 2011 and 2014. The study population consisted of 202 initially independent older adults for the basic activities of daily living.

Age and mini-mental state examination score can predict poor-quality spirometry in the elderly: a cross-sectional study.

Objectives: The goal was to identify predictors of poor-quality spirometry in community-dwelling older adults and their respective cutoffs.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional population-based study involving 245 elderly subjects (age≥60 years). The spirometric data were categorized as good or poor quality, and cognitive status was assessed using an adapted version (scaled to have a maximum of 19 points) of the Mini-Mental State Examination.

Prevalence and factors associated with hypertriglyceridemic waist in the elderly: a population-based study.

To identify the prevalence and factors associated with hypertriglyceridemic waist (HW) in community-dwelling elderly people in northeast Brazil. Population-based cross-sectional study. Some 316 elderly (≥ 60 years) people of both sexes participated in this study.

[Anthropometric indicators as predictors in determining frailty in elderly people].

The scope of this article is to analyze anthropometric indicators as predictors in determining frailty in elderly people. This is a cross-sectional, family-based and analytical study. The survey was composed of 316 elderly subjects.

Motor performance tests as screening instruments for frailty in the older adults.

Objective: To verify the association between frailty and motor performance, and identify which test is the best predictor of frailty in the older adults.

Methods: Cross-sectional, population- and home-based study that analyzed data from 286 older adults. The association between physical performance tests and frailty was verified by binary logistic regression.

Anthropometric Indicators in Hypertriglyceridemia Discrimination: Application as Screening Tools in Older Adults.

Background And Purpose: The use of anthropometric indicators as discriminators of hypertriglyceridemia has not been thoroughly investigated. The purpose of this article is to comparatively evaluate anthropometric indicators as discriminators of hypertriglyceridemia in older Brazilian adults.

Methods: This cross-sectional study derived from population-based epidemiological research involving 316 community-dwelling older adults (60-105 years old).

Cross-sectional relationships between sedentary behavior and frailty in older adults.

Background: The aim of this study was to analyze the association between frailty and sedentary behavior and to examine the discriminative ability of sedentary behavior in screening frailty in older adults.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study based on data from an epidemiologic population-based household survey involving 316 community-dwelling older adults (≥60 years) of both sexes (173 women and 143 men). The frailty was measured from an adapted version of the criteria proposed by Fried et al.

Handgrip explosive force is correlated with mobility in the elderly women.

The analysis of explosive force, through rate of force development (RFD) and contractile impulse (CI), from handgrip strength data seems to be useful and promising information to study the aging of musculoskeletal system and health status. We aimed to test the hypothesis that, in elderly women, the handgrip explosive force could be better associated to the functional mobility than maximum handgrip strength. Handgrip strength and the performance of Timed Up & Go Test (TUG) were measured from sixty-five community-dwelling healthy elderly women.

[The profile of fragility and associated factors among the elderly registered in a Family Health Unit].

The scope of this study was to identify the profile of fragility and associated factors among the elderly registered in a Family Health Unit. It involved an observational, exploratory, household -based and cross-sectional study conducted with 139 elderly individuals. The data were collected using a structured questionnaire requesting the following information: personal history, family and self-reported diseases, socio-demographic information, level of physical activity, behavior variables, number of falls in the last year, depressive symptoms, unintentional weight loss and fatigue.

Pre-frailty and frailty of elderly residents in a municipality with a low Human Development Index.

Objective: to identify the prevalence of the factors associated with pre-frailty and frailty of elderly residents in a municipality with a low Human Development Index

Method: Cross-sectional study with a populational and household framework conducted with 316 elderly people. Frailty was determined from the presence of three or more of the following factors: (i) self-reported unintentional weight loss; (ii) lack of strength and energy; (iii) weakness; (iv) slowness; (v) low level of physical activity. The association between frailty and socio-demographic, behavioral and health factors was measured using the multinomial logistic regression technique.

[Physical inactivity among non-institutionalized elderly individuals: a population-based study].

The scope of this study is to assess the prevalence of physical inactivity among the elderly in Northeast Brazil and analyze the associated lifestyle and socio-demographic factors and health conditions. The work presented here is a descriptive and association-based study using secondary data derived from a population-based epidemiological study that included 316 elderly participants. The physical activity level of each participant was assessed using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire.

Determinants of falls in community-dwelling elderly: hierarchical analysis.

Objective: To analyze the fall-related factors in community-dwelling elderly.

Design And Sample: Epidemiologic cross-sectional population-based household study with hierarchical interrelationships among the potential risk factors. The sample was made up of noninstitutionalized individuals over age 60, who were resident of a city in Brazil's Northeast Region.

Comparison of explosive force between young and elderly women: evidence of an earlier decline from explosive force.

The aging process causes many changes in muscle strength, and analysis of explosive force from handgrip strength seems to be useful and promising in studying the aging musculoskeletal system. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate if explosive force parameters [rate of force development (RFD) and contractile impulse (CI) over the time interval of 0-200 ms from the onset of contraction] during handgrip efforts decline differently than maximum handgrip strength with increasing age. Twenty healthy young women (20-27 years) and 65 healthy elderly women, assigned into three age groups (50-64, 65-74, and 75-86 years), participated in this study.

Relationship between BMI and physical performance among older adults.

Our objective was to examine the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and physical performance in community-dwelling older adults. This was a descriptive and association study, based on secondary data derived from a population-based epidemiological research involving 316 older adults. The BMI was thus classified: <22.

Anthropometric indicators of obesity as screening tools for high blood pressure in the elderly.

The study objectives were to investigate the indicators of obesity most associated with high blood pressure in community-dwelling elderly and identify among these which one best discriminates high blood pressure. This is an epidemiological, population, cross-sectional and home-based study of elderly people (≥ 60 years, n = 316) residing in northeastern Brazil. The results showed that the body mass index and the body adiposity index were the indicators more closely associated with high blood pressure in both sexes.

[Factors associated with the quality of life of community health agents].

This study examined the association of socio-demographic, occupational and risk and health behavioral factors with the loss of quality of life for community health agents of the municipality of Jequié in the state of Bahia. It is a cross-sectional study with 316 individuals, in which WHOQOL-Bref was used to evaluate the quality of life. The Poisson regression model was applied adopting the confidence interval of 95%.

[Motor performance of the elderly in northeast Brazil: differences with age and sex].

The aim of this study was to examine motor performance according to sex and age group in community-dwelling elderly individuals of the Brazilian Northeast. This was a cross-sectional study, which analyzed data of 316 elderly individuals from a population-based household epidemiological survey performed in January 2011. Participants of the study included 173 women (54.