What factors are associated with improved physical health and function during midlife among women? JAMANetworkOpen BrighamWomens womenshealth middleaged midaged health women physicalhealth function
By Neha MathurMay 3 2023Reviewed by Lily Ramsey, LLM In a recent study published in the JAMA Network Open, researchers performed a cohort study using data from the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation study to identify interventional targets that could bring in clinically relevant improvements in the physical health and function of women in their early midlife and the factors associated with these improvements.
Identifying intervention targets that could improve clinically relevant physical health and function in women in their early midlife could help them age successfully. Successful aging is typically studied among older women, though its physical health and function trajectories are apparent as early as midlife.
So, while several static and modifiable factors influence aging, their early identification could decrease mortality among older adults through prompt and timely interventions. Results Over 11 years of follow-up, nearly 15% of women experienced clinically significant improvements in health and function.
Further, the authors noted an association between the PCS at the start of follow-up and study covariates. Even a modest prevalence of scope for improvement suggested that health and function are highly pliable to amendment during midlife. Thus, identifying factors related to functional improvements could be leveraged as potential interventional targets, and women with poorer health and function might be given more support in midlife.
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