@article{ref1,
title="A later menopausal age is associated with a lower prevalence of physical frailty in community-dwelling older adults: the Korean Frailty and Aging Cohort Study (KFACS)",
journal="Archives of gerontology and geriatrics",
year="2020",
author="Lee, Y. and Kim, S. and Kim, M. and Kim, B. S. and Jeong, E. and Shim, H. and Won, C. W.",
volume="91",
number="",
pages="e104243-e104243",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to determine whether age at menopause is associated with physical frailty.   METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study that included 1264 women (70-84 years) from the Korean and Aging Cohort Study (KFACS) who had records of their ages at menarche and their ages at menopause and had experienced a natural menopause. We used Fried criteria to assess physical frailty status. The ages at menopause and menarche were collected using self-reported questionnaires.   RESULTS: The prevalence of physical frailty decreased by 5.3 % with each year of increase in age at menopause after adjusting for age, marital status, years of education, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, polypharmacy, hospitalizations, falls, and hormone replacement therapy (p = 0.005). The prevalence of frailty significantly decreased by 4.1 % when the reproductive span increased by a year (p = 0.019).   CONCLUSIONS: This study found that a later menopausal age was associated with a lower risk of frailty using Fried criteria. In addition, it showed that a longer reproductive span was associated with a lower prevalence of frailty.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0167-4943",
doi="10.1016/j.archger.2020.104243",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2020.104243"
}