Practical Geriatrics ›› 2022, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (12): 1264-1268.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1003-9198.2022.12.019

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Analysis of influencing factors of frailty based on geriatric comprehensive assessment in the elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

BAO Hai-tong, TAN Ping, YU Pei-wen, LIU Juan, DING Guo-xian, TONG Qiang-wei, WANG Xiao-dong   

  1. Department of Geriatric Endocrine, Jiangsu Province Hospital (the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University), Nanjing 210029, China
  • Received:2021-10-21 Online:2022-12-20 Published:2022-11-30

Abstract: Objective To analyze the influencing factors of frailty in the elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) by comprehensive geriatric assessment. Methods A total of 210 patients with T2DM aged ≥ 65 years old who were hospitalized in the Department of Geriatric Endocrine of Jiangsu Province Hospital from January 2020 to June 2021 were enrolled and divided into frailty group and non-frailty group according to the results of Physical Frailty Phenotype(PFP). The status of nutrition, cognition, psychology, prognosis and physical function of the patients were measured by Mini Nutritional Assessment Scale (MNA), Mini-mental State Examination (MMSE), Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), Multidimensional Prognostic Index (MPI) score for inpatients, 4 m walking speed, Timed Up and Go (TUG) test, TUG manual (TUGman), TUG cognitive (TUGcog), respectively. Binary Logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the influencing factors of frailty in the hospitalized elderly patients with T2DM. Results There were significant differences in gender, age, marital status, residential status, course of disease, nutritional status, cognitive status, psychological status, risk of death, risk of fall, walking speed, TUG, glycated hemoglobin, body mass index and grip strength between two groups(P<0.05). Binary Logistic regression analysis showed that female, long course of diabetes, low grip strength and low 4 m walking speed were the risk factors of frailty in the hospitalized elderly patients with T2DM. Conclusions The assessment of frailty in the elderly patients with T2DM needs to be diversified. The comprehensive geriatric assessment method for the elderly can be used to investigate the influencing factors of frailty in the elderly patients with T2DM and improve the quality of life.

Key words: aged, diabetes, frailty, comprehensive geriatric assessment

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