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eMediNexus 29 November 2019
The goal of a new study published in Geriatrics and Gerontology International was to identify factors related to the absence of musculoskeletal degenerative disease (MSD).
This prospective study entailed a multivariate logistic regression analysis on 1034 volunteers—444 men, 590 women of the mean age 63.5 years. Osteoporosis (percentage of young adult mean ≤70%), knee arthritis (Kellgren-Lawrence grade ≥2) and lumbar spondylosis (Nathan class ≥3) were examined. Participants were divided into those with and without MSD. Age, sex, body mass index, muscle strength, gait ability, pain, body balance, spinal sagittal alignment, geriatric syndrome (locomotive syndrome, frailty and sarcopenia) and QOL (Short Form Health Survey) were compared between these groups to identify factors associated with the absence of MSD.
The results revealed the following:
In inference, it was stated that factors related to an absence of MSD also correlate with good QOL, and should be a focus of health interventions in healthy middle-aged and older people.
Source: Imagama S, Ando K, Kobayashi K et al. Multivariate analysis of factors related to the absence of musculoskeletal degenerative disease in middle‐aged and older people. Geriatr Gerontol Int. 2019;19(11):1141-1146. doi:10.1111/ggi.13786
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