Open Access<p>Associations Between Obesity and Multidimensional Frailty in Older Chinese People with Hypertension</p>
Author(s) -
Xiaoyue Song,
Weihong Zhang,
Cynthia Hallensleben,
Anke Versluis,
Rianne van der Kleij,
Zongliang Jiang,
Niels H. Chavannes,
Robbert Gobbens
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical interventions in aging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.184
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1178-1998
pISSN - 1176-9092
DOI - 10.2147/cia.s234815
Subject(s) - medicine , waist , gerontology , obesity , body mass index , abdominal obesity , population , demography , environmental health , sociology
To investigate the prevalence of multidimensional frailty in older people with hypertension and to examine a possible relationship of general obesity and abdominal obesity to frailty in older people with hypertension.