Physical health and cardiometabolic risk markers among the elder people
In Malaysia population, cardiometabolic diseases is still the leading cause of disabilities including death which cardiometabolic risks gradually rise as the age increase. The research communities particularly in clinical facing this challenge to designate the appropriate components of preventiv...
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| Language: | English |
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IIUM Press, International Islamic University Malaysia
2017
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/61874/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/61874/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/61874/1/61874_Physical%20health%20and%20cardiometabolic%20risk%20markers%20among%20the%20elder%20people.pdf |
| Summary: | In Malaysia population, cardiometabolic diseases is still the leading
cause of disabilities including death which cardiometabolic risks
gradually rise as the age increase. The research communities
particularly in clinical facing this challenge to designate the
appropriate components of preventive, diagnostic including
therapeutic care for the elder people in the community.
Thus, by assessing the components of physical health in the
elder people may provide evidence to the physiological data as
complementary, and presumably may be used to foresee the elder
people health status in general. The valuable effects of relationship
underlying between components of physical health towards the
risk for cardiometabolic risk markers in elder people, are not well
understood.
Thus, exploring the relationship between the components of
physical health and cardiometabolic risk markers among the elder
people with cardiometabolic disease was the aim of this study.
The target population was healthy people and people living with
cardiometabolic diseaseattending UKMMC aged 60-75.
A series of test had been taken to the participants which
were agility, muscular flexibility, muscular strength and
cardiorespiratory endurance. They were also donated a 10ml
blood sample after an overnight fast for analysis of fasting lipid
profiles, high sensitivity CRP, glucose, adiponectin and insulin.
The relationship of components of physical health and
cardiometabolic risk markers used Spearman rho correlation for
investigation. Analysis on 68 participants has been carried oResults found that there were significant positive relationship
between muscular strength with blood pressure (r=0.318, p=0.008)
and muscular strength with glucose (r=0.265, p=0.029). There
were also significant negative relationship found between body
flexibility with HOMA-IR (r=-0.291, p=0.061), body flexibility
with Insulin (r=-0.276, p=0.023), body flexibility with BMI (r=-
0.289, p=0.017) and body flexibility with the circumference of
the waist (r=-0.276, p=0.022).
Results suggested that good health status including ideal body
weight and physical fitness will lower the cardiometabolic risk
markers. ut. |
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