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Frailty, Frailty Components, and Oral Health: A Systematic Review
Author(s) -
Tôrres Luísa Helena do Nascimento,
Tellez Marisol,
Hilgert Juliana Balbinot,
Hugo Fernando Neves,
Sousa Maria da Luz Rosário,
Ismail Amid Ibrahim
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/jgs.13826
Subject(s) - medicine , gerontology , medline , cohort study , systematic review , oral health , quality of life (healthcare) , family medicine , pathology , political science , law , nursing
A systematic review was conducted to assess the relationship between frailty or one of its components and poor oral health. A search strategy was developed to identify articles related to the research question in the PubMed, EMBASE , Cochrane, LILACS , and Sci ELO databases that were published in English, Spanish, or Brazilian Portuguese from 1991 to July 2013. Thirty‐five studies were identified, and 12 met the inclusion criteria, seven of which were cross‐sectional and five were cohort studies. Of the 12 articles, five (41.7%) were rated good and seven (58.3%) as fair quality. The published studies applied different oral health and frailty criteria measures. Variations in definitions of outcome measures and study designs limited the ability to draw strong conclusions about the relationship between frailty or prefrailty and poor oral health. None of the studies that were evaluated longitudinally showed whether poor oral health increases the likelihood of developing signs of frailty, although the studies suggest that there may be an association between frailty and oral health. More longitudinal studies are needed to better understand the relationship between frailty and oral health.