McCaffery Jeanne M, Anderson Andrea, Coday Mace, Espeland Mark A, Gorin Amy A, Johnson Karen C, Knowler William C, Myers Candice A, Rejeski W Jack, Steinberg Helmut O, Steptoe Andrew, Wing Rena R
Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.
Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
J Aging Res. 2020 Oct 30;2020:7543702. doi: 10.1155/2020/7543702. eCollection 2020.
Little is known about the impact of loneliness on physical health among elderly individuals with diabetes. Here, we examined the relationship of loneliness with disability, objective physical function, and other health outcomes in older individuals with type 2 diabetes and overweight or obesity.
Data are drawn from the Look AHEAD study, a diverse cohort of individuals (ages 61-92) with overweight or obesity and type 2 diabetes measured 5-6 years after a 10-year weight loss randomized, controlled trial.
Loneliness scores were significantly associated with greater disability symptoms and slower 4-meter gait speed ( < 0.01). Loneliness did not differ across treatment arms. . Overall, these results extend prior findings relating loneliness to disability and decreased mobility to older individuals with type 2 diabetes and overweight or obesity.
关于孤独对老年糖尿病患者身体健康的影响，我们所知甚少。在此，我们研究了孤独与2型糖尿病及超重或肥胖的老年个体的残疾、客观身体功能和其他健康结局之间的关系。
数据取自“展望”研究，该研究是一个多样化的队列，参与者年龄在61 - 92岁之间，患有超重或肥胖以及2型糖尿病，这些数据是在一项为期10年的减肥随机对照试验进行5 - 6年后测量得到的。
孤独得分与更严重的残疾症状和更慢的4米步态速度显著相关（<0.01）。各治疗组之间的孤独感没有差异。总体而言，这些结果扩展了先前关于孤独与残疾以及行动能力下降之间关系的研究结果，将其应用于患有2型糖尿病及超重或肥胖的老年个体。
