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Fam Pract 2022 Aug 9. Epub 2022 Aug 9.

Department of Internal Medicine, Niigata University Faculty of Medicine, Niigata, Japan.

Background And Objectives: To clarify whether the presence or absence of fast walking and habitual physical activity are independently associated with the incidence of functional disability.

Methods: This historical cohort study was comprised of 9,652 (4,412 men, mean age 65 years) individuals aged 39-98 years without functional disability at baseline. Functional disability was determined based on the Japanese long-term care insurance system, which specified requirements for assistance in the activities of daily living. Read More

Ageing Res Rev 2022 Aug 3;81:101704. Epub 2022 Aug 3.

Department of Applied Health Sciences, Hochschule für Gesundheit (University of Applied Sciences), Bochum, Germany.

The objective of the present review is to synthesize all available research on the association between mobility capacity and incident disability in non-disabled older adults. MEDLINE, EMBASE and CINAHL databases were searched without any limits or restrictions until February 2021. Published reports of longitudinal cohort studies that estimated a direct association between baseline mobility capacity, assessed with a standardized outcome assessment, and subsequent development of disability, including initially non-disabled older adults were included. Read More

Age Ageing 2022 Aug;51(8)

Global Health Research Center, Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan 215316, China.

Objective: to identify multimorbidity patterns among middle-aged and older adults in China and examine how these patterns are associated with incident disability and recovery of independence.

Methods: data were from The China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. We included 14,613 persons aged ≥45 years. Read More

Aust N Z J Psychiatry 2022 Aug 3:48674221115642. Epub 2022 Aug 3.

Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry, Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, UNSW Sydney, Randwick, NSW, Australia.

Objective: Little research has examined the physical and mental comorbidities, and health service use patterns, of people diagnosed with psychotic disorder subtypes other than schizophrenia spectrum disorders. This study aims to examine the physical and mental comorbidities, and subsequent hospital service use patterns, of individuals previously hospitalised with various psychotic disorder subtypes using linked health service data.

Methods: We included individuals hospitalised with a psychotic disorder in New South Wales, Australia, between 1 July 2002 and 31 December 2014 (N = 63,110). Read More

Front Genet 2022 15;13:908482. Epub 2022 Jul 15.

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wuhan No 1 Hospital, Wuhan, China.

Down syndrome (DS) is the leading cause of genetically defined intellectual disability and congenital birth defects worldwide. A large population of people diagnosed with DS globally is posing an enormous socioeconomic burden. However, the global burden and trends of DS have not been reported. Read More