Older Adults with Celiac Disease Have Increased Risk of Frailty: Study
A new Swedish study published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology revealed that older adults diagnosed with celiac disease (CeD) are significantly more prone to frailty when compared to their peers without the condition. The nationwide cohort study examined individuals aged 60 and older diagnosed with CeD between 2004 and 2017 and matched them with non-CeD controls of similar age, sex, and location. The findings illuminate the heightened vulnerability faced by older adults with CeD by raising concerns about the long-term health impacts of the disease.
This research analyzed frailty levels within 3 years prior to diagnosis using the Hospital Frailty Risk Score, a tool that stratifies individuals into low, intermediate, and high frailty risk categories. Of the 4,646 CeD patients included, 54.4% were classified as frail at baseline when compared to 29.7% of the 21,944 matched controls. Also, frailty was more prevalent across all categories for CeD patients where 43.4% were at low-risk when compared to 23.8% of controls, 10.3% were at intermediate-risk when compared to 5.4%, and 0.8% were at high-risk versus 0.6% among controls.
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