Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
15th International Congress of the European Geriatric Medicine Society, Krakow, Polonya, 25 - 27 Eylül 2019, ss.282
Introduction: It is suggested that ‘‘chair stand test (CSST)’’ (also called chair rise test) can be used as a proxy for strength of leg muscles to detect sarcopenia. Definitions of both sarcopenia and frailty are still developing, and both concepts clearly overlap in their physical aspects. We aimed to study the association between frailty and ‘‘chair stand test’’ performance, and evaluate this test as a screening tool for frailty in community-dwelling elderly women.
Methods: Community-dwelling older adults aged C 65 years admitted to a geriatric outpatient clinic were enrolled. Frailty was assesed by modified Fried criteria. Participants were classified as frail if total Fried point was C 3 and non-frail if\3. Chair stand test has been perfomed to all participant.
Results: 456 patients were included (71.1% women, 28.9% men; mean age: 74.6 ± 6.6 years). 97 (21.27%) were frail. Frail participants had longer CSST duration when compared with non-frail participants (17.6 ± 5.6 s vs 11.7 ± 3.7 s; p\0.001). The CSST cut off [12 s had a sensitivity of 87.6%, specificity 66.3% to detect frailty; AUC: 0.835 (95% Cl: 0.798–0.868, p value\0.0001). CSST cut off [20 s had ver high specificity as [96%.
Conclusions: The performance of ‘‘chair stand test’’ showed predictive ability for frailty. CSST may be used as a screening tool for frailty with [12 s cut-off and diagnostic tool with[20 s cut off.