Summarized by Masters of Longevity from Frontiers - Health.
Reports a prospective cohort linking estimated pulse wave velocity and its increase over seven years with higher incident frailty risk in older Chinese adults.
Key Takeaways
- Each 1 m/s higher baseline ePWV was associated with 21% higher odds of incident frailty (OR=1.21, 95% CI: 1.10–1.33).
- Participants in the highest baseline ePWV quartile had more than double the frailty risk versus the lowest quartile (OR=2.11, 95% CI: 1.36–3.28).
- Each 1 m/s increase in longitudinal ΔePWV predicted 21.4% higher frailty odds and rapid ePWV rise nearly doubled frailty risk versus stable/decline (OR=1.91).
