TY - JOUR
T1 - Comprehensive geriatric assessment of elderly highlanders in Qinghai, China I
T2 - activities of daily living, quality of life and metabolic syndrome.
AU - Matsubayashi, Kozo
AU - Kimura, Yumi
AU - Sakamoto, Ryota
AU - Wada, Taizo
AU - Ishimoto, Yasuko
AU - Hirosaki, Mayumi
AU - Konno, Akiko
AU - Chen, Wingling
AU - Ishine, Masayuki
AU - Kosaka, Yasuyuki
AU - Wada, Chizu
AU - Nakatsuka, Masahiro
AU - Otsuka, Kuniaki
AU - Fujisawa, Michiko
AU - Wang, Hongxing
AU - Dai, Qingxiang
AU - Yang, Airong
AU - Gao, Jidong
AU - Li, Zhanquan
AU - Qiao, Haisheng
AU - Zhang, Yongshou
AU - Ge, R. L.
AU - Okumiya, Kiyohito
PY - 2009/12
Y1 - 2009/12
N2 - AIM: To reveal the comparison of comprehensive geriatric functions of elderly highlanders in Qinghai Plateau in China among three different ethnic groups. METHODS: Activities of daily living (ADL), screening-based depression, quality of life (QOL) and checking-up of metabolic syndrome including community-based oral glucose tolerance test were assessed in 393 community-dwelling elderly subjects aged 60 years or more (247 Han elderly subjects, 49 Mongolian ones and 97 Tibetan ones). RESULTS: Tibetan elderly highlanders were more disabled in ADL, but had higher QOL than Han elderly ones in Qinghai Plateau. Blood pressure measurements, rate of hypertension and hemoglobin concentrations in Tibetan elderly highlanders were lower than Han ones. Rates of diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance in elderly highlanders were relatively lower than other Asian elderly lowlanders. CONCLUSION: Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in elderly highlanders in Qinghai was still not high, however, we should pay attention to its tendency related with socialglobalism in the near future. Further investigation on physiological adaptability to hypoxic environment and human ageing phenomena in a global context may open a new research frontier for ageing science.
AB - AIM: To reveal the comparison of comprehensive geriatric functions of elderly highlanders in Qinghai Plateau in China among three different ethnic groups. METHODS: Activities of daily living (ADL), screening-based depression, quality of life (QOL) and checking-up of metabolic syndrome including community-based oral glucose tolerance test were assessed in 393 community-dwelling elderly subjects aged 60 years or more (247 Han elderly subjects, 49 Mongolian ones and 97 Tibetan ones). RESULTS: Tibetan elderly highlanders were more disabled in ADL, but had higher QOL than Han elderly ones in Qinghai Plateau. Blood pressure measurements, rate of hypertension and hemoglobin concentrations in Tibetan elderly highlanders were lower than Han ones. Rates of diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance in elderly highlanders were relatively lower than other Asian elderly lowlanders. CONCLUSION: Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in elderly highlanders in Qinghai was still not high, however, we should pay attention to its tendency related with socialglobalism in the near future. Further investigation on physiological adaptability to hypoxic environment and human ageing phenomena in a global context may open a new research frontier for ageing science.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1447-0594.2009.00548.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1447-0594.2009.00548.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 20002752
AN - SCOPUS:76349115333
VL - 9
SP - 333
EP - 341
JO - Geriatrics and Gerontology International
JF - Geriatrics and Gerontology International
SN - 1447-0594
IS - 4
ER -
