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ATHLOS Healthy Aging Scale score as the predictor of all-cause mortality in Poland and Czechia

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KOZELA Magdalena PAJAK Andrzej SZAFRANIEC Krystyna AYUSO-MATEOS Jose Luis BOBÁK Martin LU Wentian PIKHART Hynek POLAK Maciej SANCHEZ-NIUBO Albert STEPANIAK Urszula HARO Josep Maria

Year of publication 2023
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Frontiers in Public Health
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Faculty of Science

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Web https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1114497/full
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1114497
Keywords healthy aging; scale; mortality; Central and Eastern Europe (CEE); aging
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Description BackgroundThe ATHLOS consortium (Aging Trajectories of Health-Longitudinal Opportunities and Synergies) used data from several aging cohorts to develop a novel scale measuring healthy aging comprehensively and globally (ATHLOS Healthy Aging Scale). In the present study, we assessed the predictive performance of the ATHLOS Healthy Aging Scale for all-cause mortality in middle-aged and older adults. MethodsData from the Polish and Czech HAPIEE (Health Alcohol and Psychosocial factors In Eastern Europe) prospective cohorts were used. There were 10,728 Poles and 8,857 Czechs recruited. The ATHLOS Healthy Aging Scale score was calculated for all participants using data from the baseline examination carried out from 2002 to 2005. The follow-up for all-cause mortality was completed over 14 years. The associations between quintiles of the ATHLOS Healthy Aging Scale and all-cause mortality were estimated using Cox proportional hazards models. ResultsA total of 9,922 Polish and 8,518 Czech participants contributed ATHLOS Healthy Aging Scale and mortality data with 1,828 and 1,700 deaths, respectively. After controlling for age, the ATHLOS Healthy Aging Scale score was strongly associated with mortality in a graded fashion for both genders and countries (hazard ratios for lowest vs. highest quintile were 2.98 and 1.96 for Czech and Polish women and 2.83 and 2.66 for Czech and Polish men, respectively). The associations were only modestly attenuated by controlling for education, economic activity, and smoking, and there was further modest attenuation after additional adjustment for self-rated health. ConclusionThe novel ATHLOS Healthy Aging Scale is a good predictor of all-cause mortality in Central European urban populations, suggesting that this comprehensive measure is a useful tool for the assessment of the future health trajectories of older persons.
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