Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí hóa học quốc tế đề tài : Frailty and health related quality of life in older Mexican Americans | Health and Quality of Life Outcomes BioMed Central Research Frailty and health related quality of life in older Mexican Americans Meredith C Masel James E Graham Timothy A Reistetter Kyriakos S Markides and Kenneth J Ottenbacher Open Access Address The University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston 301 University Blvd Route 1137 Galveston TX 77555-1137 USA Email Meredith C Masel - mcmasel@ James E Graham - jegraham@ Timothy A Reistetter - tareiste@ Kyriakos S Markides - kmarkide@ Kenneth J Ottenbacher - kottenba@ Corresponding author Published 23 July 2009 Received 18 May 2009 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7 70 doi 1477-7525-7-70 Accepted 23 July 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 70 2009 Masel et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Previous research on frailty in older adults has focused on morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this study was to elicit the relationship between being non-frail pre-frail or frail and health related quality of life in a representative sample of older Mexican Americans surveyed in 2005-2006. Methods Data were from a representative subsample of the Hispanic Established Populations Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly EPESE and included 1008 older adults living in the community mean sd age . Multiple regression analyses examined the relationship between frailty status and the eight SF-36 health related quality of life subscales and two summary scales. Models also adjusted for the participants sociodemographic and health status. Results We found that after adjusting for sociodemographic and health related covariables being pre-frail or frail was significantly .
