LDL Cholesterol and Frailty Association in Beijing Adults Aged ≥70 Years

Wenjing Liu published a cross-sectional dataset on figshare in March 2026. It contains data from 218 adults aged 70 and above in Beijing, China, focusing on sociodemographic characteristics, lifestyle, comorbidities, and peripheral blood biomarkers. The study assessed the prevalence of frailty and investigated the association between low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels and frailty using the FRAIL scale.

Use Cases

• Analyze the association between LDL cholesterol levels and frailty status based on biomarker data.
• Model frailty prevalence in older adults based on sociodemographic and lifestyle variables.
• Conduct stratified analyses of health outcomes based on comorbidities like hypertension and diabetes.
• Train predictive models for frailty risk using combined biomarker and clinical data.

Strengths

• Dataset includes 218 participants with a mean age of 77.5 ± 6.4 years.
• Frailty prevalence is quantified with specific percentages: robust (20.6%), pre-frailty (69.7%), frailty (9.6%).
• Analysis includes adjusted ordinal logistic regression and multiple linear regression results with specific odds ratios and confidence intervals.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to a single-city (Beijing) study.

Provenance

Source

Wenjing Liu

Collection Method

Cross-sectional study collecting data on sociodemographic characteristics, lifestyle, comorbidities, and peripheral blood biomarkers.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-19 05:17:34; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Beijing, China