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Open AccessQuantifying Older Black Americans’ Exposure to Structural Racial Discrimination: How Can We Measure the Water In Which We Swim?
The USA was built on legalized racism that started with enslavement and continues in the form of structural racial discrimination. This discrimination is difficult to measure because its many manifestations a...
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Open AccessThe effect of missing data and imputation on the detection of bias in cognitive testing using differential item functioning methods
Item response theory (IRT) methods for addressing differential item functioning (DIF) can detect group differences in responses to individual items (e.g., bias). IRT and DIF-detection methods have been used in...
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Open AccessClinically Meaningful Change for Physical Performance: Perspectives of the ICFSR Task Force
For clinical studies of sarcopenia and frailty, clinically meaningful outcome measures are needed to monitor disease progression, evaluate efficacy of interventions, and plan clinical trials. Physical performa...
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Relationship of Physical Frailty to Phosphocreatine Recovery in Muscle after Mild Exercise Stress in the Oldest-Old Women
Physical frailty is a clinical syndrome associated with aging and manifesting as slowness, weakness, reduced physical activity, weight loss, and/or exhaustion. Frail older adults often report that their major ...
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Antibiotic use and childhood body mass index trajectory
Antibiotics are commonly prescribed for children. Use of antibiotics early in life has been linked to weight gain but there are no large-scale, population-based, longitudinal studies of the full age range amon...
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Diet quality and social support: Factors associated with serum carotenoid concentrations among older disabled women (the Women’s Health and Aging Study)
This study investigated the relationship between social support (including instrumental support, emotional support, social interaction, social space, and family networks) and diet quality, as indicated by seru...
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Transcobalamin-II variants, decreased vitamin B12 availability and increased risk of frailty
This project was designed to follow-up prior evidence that demonstrated a significant association between vitamin B12 transport and metabolism and the frailty syndrome in community-dwelling older women. The cross...
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Markers of B-vitamin deficiency and frailty in older women
Objective: To evaluate the association between markers of vitamins B12, B6 and folate deficiency and the geriatric syndrome of frailty.Design: Cross-sectional study of baseline measures from the ...
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Severity of hand osteoarthritis and its association with upper extremity impairment in a population of disabled older women: The Women’s Health and Aging Study
Most severity indices of osteoarthritis (OA) include measures of physical function which render them unsuitable for assessing the impact of OA on disability. Data from 1002 moderate to severely disabled commun...
