Age-Related Loss of Sense of Smell Correlates with Degree of Frailty

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/01/age-related-loss-of-sense-of-smell-correlates-with-degree-of-frailty/

The many aspects of degenerative aging arise from a smaller set of common underlying processes of damage, giving rise to a web of interacting consequences. It can be hard to pin down the chains of cause and effect, and the degree to which any one contributing cause is responsible for the end result, but nonetheless many aspects of aging correlate with one another for the simple reason that the root causes are much the same. This can be the case even when degeneration occurs in very different bodily systems. For example, as shown here, loss of sense of smell and general physical frailty show a correlation.

To examine the relationship between frailty and olfaction, the research team analyzed data from 1,160 older adults enrolled in the <a href="https://www.nia.nih.gov/research/r…

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