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Abstract
This study was conducted to assess frailty as a risk of falls in obese elderly females.
Our study was a case control study and enrolled 140 elderly females recruited from attendants of outpatient clinics and inpatient wards in Ain Shams University Hospitals.
All participants were subjected to: detailed personal history, complete physical examination, assessment frailty by FRIED criteria, assessment of falls by timed up and go test and FRAT, weight and height were measured, BMI (kg/m2) was calculated and waist circumference were measured.
Our study revealed that risk of falls was 80% in frail obese cases compared to 20% of obese non frail cases.
Also 71.4% of frail non-obese cases have positive risk of falls and only 28.6% of non frail non-obese cases have positive risk of falls.
In addition 60% of obese cases were frail, while 51.4% of non-obese group were frail and risk of falls by TUGT was highly significant in obese group than non-obese group.
Risk of falls by TUGT was highly significant among frail and non-frail cases.
FRAT criteria breakdown shows that history of falls and unable to rise from chair were significant in frail cases than non-frail cases.
Osteoarthritis was significantly more frequent in frail cases than non-frail cases.
Moreover (70.5%) of frail females in our study had high waist circumference.
60% of obese females in this study were frail by FRIED criteria, unintentional weight loss and week hand grip were significantly different between both groups.
Slow walk speed, low physical activity and self reported exhaustion were more frequent among obese group than unintentional weight loss and week hand grip.
Moreover osteoarthritis and vision problems were significantly found in obese group than non obese group.