title: [Body profile and physical and cognitive function by age in ambulatory elderly women from the city of Córdoba].
abstract: Aging produces body changes such as redistribution of fat and loss of muscle mass and strength, predisposing to fragility, functional impairment and disability.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the relationship between body profile and physical and cognitive function by age in in ambulatory elderly women from the city of Córdoba.
  
  
  METHODS
  178 healthy older women (OW) ≥60 years free living were evaluated attending centers of retirees and day homes in the city of Córdoba. We evaluated body profile from: skeletal muscle mass index (SMMI), relative body adiposity (RBA) -dual X-ray absorptiometry- and muscle strength (MS) -dynamometry-. Categories: normal/(N) sarcopenia/(SP), obesity/(OB), sarcopenic obesity/(SO); Physical function: with/without physical limitation (PL); cognitive function: with/without cognitive impairment (CI).
  
  
  METHODS
  Lunar Prodigy Densitometer and Smedley dynamometer, Lawton and Brody and Minimental Examination of Folstein scales.
  
  
  RESULTS
  SO prevailed and increased with age, contrary to OB. Most of the OW did not PL or CI. Only 2.25% had low SMMI and 48.3% dynapenia. 76.97% had elevated RBA. The SP - obese or not - had greater PL and CI. CI frequency doubled to PL (15.17% versus 6.74%). We found negative correlations and significant associations between age and MS (r= -0.279; p=0.0001), physical function (r=-0.164; p=0.0283) and cognitive function (r=-0.028; p=0.0002).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In this group of healthy OW the dynapenia was responsible for the observed SP, not low SMMI. The OW with SP had more PL and CI, and increased with age.
authors.forename: Ana V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Asaduroglu
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tablada
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cosiansi Bai
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Carrillo
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Canale
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gallerano
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001118:Argentina; D015992:Body Mass Index; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D053580:Muscle Strength / Q000502:physiology*; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009765:Obesity / Q000503:physiopathology; D055948:Sarcopenia / Q000503:physiopathology