Buckinx F, Charles A, Reginster J Y, Petermans J, Bruyère O
Service de Santé Publique, Epidémiologie et Economie de la Santé, Liège Université, Belgique. Centre collaborateur de l'OMS pour l'étude de la santé et du vieillissement de l'appareil musculo-squelettique.
Département de Gériatrie, CHU Liège, Belgique.
Rev Med Liege. 2019 Apr;74(4):212-217.
Over the past 20 years, clinicians and researchers have shown increasing interest in frailty. However, there is still no consensus regarding its operational definition. An interesting definition in this context could be the one that best predicts functional decline and the occurrence of negative health outcomes. Moreover, frailty could be avoided, delayed and sometimes cured by the implementation of targeted interventions. The SENIOR cohort, a longitudinal study of nursing home residents, initiated in 2013, aims to contribute to the understanding of risk factors, consequences and dynamic of frailty. It also contributes to its management. This cohort is of great interest among scientists. Because of the large number of demographic, clinical and anamnestic data collected each year, the SENIOR study could fill the gap in the literature related to the frailty.
在过去20年里，临床医生和研究人员对衰弱的兴趣日益浓厚。然而，关于其操作定义仍未达成共识。在这种情况下，一个有趣的定义可能是最能预测功能衰退和负面健康结果发生的定义。此外，通过实施有针对性的干预措施，可以避免、延缓衰弱，有时还能治愈衰弱。SENIOR队列研究始于2013年，是一项针对养老院居民的纵向研究，旨在促进对衰弱的风险因素、后果和动态变化的理解。它也有助于对衰弱的管理。这个队列研究在科学家中引起了极大的兴趣。由于每年收集大量的人口统计学、临床和既往史数据，SENIOR研究可以填补与衰弱相关的文献空白。
