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The Utility of Grip Strength as a Simplified Measure of Frailty in the Older Adult in the Preoperative Clinic

Objective  The aim of this study was to compare the measure of grip strength against other validated methods of measuring frailty. Materials and methods This was a single-center, cross-sectional study that took place at the Westchester Medical Center Pre-Procedural Testing Clinic. The patient popula...

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Autores principales: Spiegowski, Dominique, Metzger, Lia, Jain, Ankita, Inchiosa, Mario A, Weber, Garret, Abramowicz, Apolonia E
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Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9529157/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36211090
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28747
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author Spiegowski, Dominique
Metzger, Lia
Jain, Ankita
Inchiosa, Mario A
Weber, Garret
Abramowicz, Apolonia E
author_facet Spiegowski, Dominique
Metzger, Lia
Jain, Ankita
Inchiosa, Mario A
Weber, Garret
Abramowicz, Apolonia E
author_sort Spiegowski, Dominique
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description Objective  The aim of this study was to compare the measure of grip strength against other validated methods of measuring frailty. Materials and methods This was a single-center, cross-sectional study that took place at the Westchester Medical Center Pre-Procedural Testing Clinic. The patient population included n = 73 patients ≥65 years of age evaluated for elective surgery. During the study, patients’ grip strength, CFS-I (Clinical Frailty Score of Investigator), CFS-P (Clinical Frailty Score of Participant), and FRAIL (Fatigue, Resistance, Aerobic capacity, Illnesses, and Loss of weight) scores were measured. Results Grip strength correlated negatively with the CFS-I, CFS-P, and FRAIL scores for females. Reduced grip strength in females correlated with higher frailty scores and vice versa. Male grip strength showed no significant relationship with the frailty scales. In addition, multivariate linear regression analysis revealed that the independent measure that demonstrated a significant inverse association with grip strength was age (β= -0.43, p = <0.001). Conclusions  There exists a difference in the utility of grip strength as a measure of frailty between males and females.
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spelling pubmed-95291572022-10-06 The Utility of Grip Strength as a Simplified Measure of Frailty in the Older Adult in the Preoperative Clinic Spiegowski, Dominique Metzger, Lia Jain, Ankita Inchiosa, Mario A Weber, Garret Abramowicz, Apolonia E Cureus Anesthesiology Objective  The aim of this study was to compare the measure of grip strength against other validated methods of measuring frailty. Materials and methods This was a single-center, cross-sectional study that took place at the Westchester Medical Center Pre-Procedural Testing Clinic. The patient population included n = 73 patients ≥65 years of age evaluated for elective surgery. During the study, patients’ grip strength, CFS-I (Clinical Frailty Score of Investigator), CFS-P (Clinical Frailty Score of Participant), and FRAIL (Fatigue, Resistance, Aerobic capacity, Illnesses, and Loss of weight) scores were measured. Results Grip strength correlated negatively with the CFS-I, CFS-P, and FRAIL scores for females. Reduced grip strength in females correlated with higher frailty scores and vice versa. Male grip strength showed no significant relationship with the frailty scales. In addition, multivariate linear regression analysis revealed that the independent measure that demonstrated a significant inverse association with grip strength was age (β= -0.43, p = <0.001). Conclusions  There exists a difference in the utility of grip strength as a measure of frailty between males and females. Cureus 2022-09-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9529157/ /pubmed/36211090 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28747 Text en Copyright © 2022, Spiegowski et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Anesthesiology
Spiegowski, Dominique
Metzger, Lia
Jain, Ankita
Inchiosa, Mario A
Weber, Garret
Abramowicz, Apolonia E
The Utility of Grip Strength as a Simplified Measure of Frailty in the Older Adult in the Preoperative Clinic
title The Utility of Grip Strength as a Simplified Measure of Frailty in the Older Adult in the Preoperative Clinic
title_full The Utility of Grip Strength as a Simplified Measure of Frailty in the Older Adult in the Preoperative Clinic
title_fullStr The Utility of Grip Strength as a Simplified Measure of Frailty in the Older Adult in the Preoperative Clinic
title_full_unstemmed The Utility of Grip Strength as a Simplified Measure of Frailty in the Older Adult in the Preoperative Clinic
title_short The Utility of Grip Strength as a Simplified Measure of Frailty in the Older Adult in the Preoperative Clinic
title_sort utility of grip strength as a simplified measure of frailty in the older adult in the preoperative clinic
topic Anesthesiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9529157/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36211090
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28747
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