Open AccessDissecting the Racial/Ethnic Disparity in Frailty in a Nationally Representative Cohort Study with Respect to Health, Income, and Measurement
Author(s) -
Therri Usher,
Brian Buta,
Roland J. Thorpe,
Jin Huang,
Laura Samuel,
Judith D. Kasper,
Karen BandeenRoche
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the journals of gerontology. series a, biological sciences and medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.134
H-Index - 189
eISSN - 1758-535X
pISSN - 1079-5006
DOI - 10.1093/gerona/glaa061
Subject(s) - medicine , ethnic group , demography , odds ratio , odds , gerontology , body mass index , confidence interval , logistic regression , psychological intervention , quartile , health equity , public health , nursing , pathology , psychiatry , sociology , anthropology
Racial/ethnic frailty prevalence disparities have been documented. Better elucidating how these operate may inform interventions to eliminate them. We aimed to determine whether physical frailty phenotype (PFP) prevalence disparities (i) are explained by health aspects, (ii) vary by income, or (iii) differ in degree across individual PFP criteria.