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Ageing Research Reviews 36 (2017) 1–10 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Ageing Research Reviews journal

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homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/arr Review Frailty and sarcopenia: The potential role of an aged immune system Daisy Wilson ∗ , Thomas Jackson, Elizabeth Sapey, Janet M. Lord MRC-ARUK Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2WD, UK a r t i c l e Article history: Received 22 November 2016 Received in revised form 26 January 2017 Accepted 31 January 2017 Available online 20 February 2017 Keywords: Immunesenescence Inflammaging Frailty Sarcopenia Neutrophil Inactivity a b s t r a c t i n f o Frailty is a common negative consequence of ageing. Sarcopenia, the syndrome of loss of muscle mass, quality and strength, is more common in older adults and has been considered a precursor syndrome or the physical manifestation of frailty. The pathophysiology of both syndromes is incompletely described with multiple causes, inter-relationships and complex pathways proposed. Age-associated changes to the immune system (both immunesenescence, the decline in immune function with ageing, and inflammageing, a state of chronic inflammation) have been suggested as contributors to sarcopenia and frailty but a direct causative role remains to be established. Frailty, sarcopenia and immunesenescence are commonly described in older adults but are not ubiquitous to ageing. There is evidence that all three conditions are reversible and all three appear to share common inflammatory drivers. It is unclear whether frailty, sarcopenia and immunesenescence are separate entities that co-occur due to coincidental or potentially confounding factors, or whether they are more intimately linked by the same underlying cellular mechanisms. This review explores these possibilities focusing on innate immunity, and in particular associations with neutrophil dysfunction, inflammation and known mechanisms described to date. Furthermore, we consider whether the age-related decline in immune cell function (such as neutrophil migration), increased inflammation and the dysregulation of the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)-Akt pathway in neutrophils could contribute pathogenically to sarcopenia and frailty. © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1. Frailty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2. Sarcopenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.3. Relationships between frailty and sarcopenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Pathophysiology of sarcopenia and frailty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.1. Regulation of muscle mass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Ageing of the immune system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.1. Role of increased systemic inflammation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.1.1. Inflammatory cytokines, IL-6 and TNF␣ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.1.2. Anti-inflammatory cytokines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.1.3. Leukocytes, sarcopenia and frailty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1. Introduction 1.1. Frailty ∗ Corresponding author. E-mail address: d.v.wilson@bham.ac.uk (D. Wilson). The concept of frailty is probably recognised by most biogerontologists but its emerging importance as a hallmark of ageing has led to a more rigorous medical definition of physical frailty. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.2017.01.006 1568-1637/© 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). 2 D. Wilson et al. / Ageing Research Reviews 36 (2017) 1–10 ‘A medical syndrome with multiple causes and contributors that is characterized by diminished strength, endurance, and reduced physiologic function that increases an individual’s vulnerability for developing increased dependency and/or death’ (Morley et al., 2013). This definition describes the syndrome but does not attempt to interpret the condition or its underlying biological mechanisms. Two intrinsically different models of frailty have been proposed in an attempt to operationalise the syndrome. The first model, the frailty phenotype model, was proposed by Fried and colleagues (Fried et al., 2001). This suggests that a step-wise increase in self-reported disability is analogous with an increasing frailty state and correlates with adverse health outcomes such as death, hospitalisation and falls. Fried demonstrates that the presence of 3 components, out of a total of 5 (unintentional weight loss, self-reported exhaustion, weakness, slow walking speed and low physical activity), has predictive power in identifying mortality risk. Fried extrapolates this to suggest that the presence of 3 components in a person identifies them as frail and the presence of 1 or 2 components as pre-frail (Fried et al., 2001). The model has been validated by Fried and independent groups with concurrent or predictive validity assessed in 17 different samples or cohorts (Bouillon et al., 2013), but no attempt has been made to assess the reliability of the phenotype. Conversely Rockwood et al. suggested that frailty was not a categorical phenomenon but best described as a dynamic, continuous process of deficit accumulation and as a result they proposed the Frailty Index (Mitnitski et al., 2001). The most striking difference with the Fried definition of frailty was that any variable could be considered a deficit as long as it was associated with adverse health outcomes, increased in prevalence with age into the tenth decade and had a prevalence of at least 1% which did not saturate in older age. Using this model Rockwood showed there was a greater correlation of time to death with frailty index rather than age (Mitnitski et al., 2001). The Frailty Index has also been widely tested for validity with concurrent or predictive validity assessed in 13 different samples or cohorts (Bouillon et al., 2013), but not reliability. One of the difficulties in deciding upon the most elegant and clinically applicable model is that each model describes a slightly different population. The Frailty Index has better discriminatory ability for adults with moderate and severe frailty (Rockwood et al., 2007). This is probably due to its broader approach to the diagnosis of frailty and the inclusion of cognitive and psychosocial markers rather than solely relying on physical markers. There are also higher rates of frailty reported with the Frailty Index, likely due to the continuous nature of the model (Song et al., 2010). This may make it a better objective marker of the assessment of the efficacy of an intervention. The frailty phenotype may have utility in identifying older adults at risk of disability. It has been suggested that these assessment instruments should not be considered as alternatives, but rather as complementary. Both the Frailty Index and the Frailty Phenotype are utilised in research but the more global concept of frailty as described by the Frailty Index is probably better accepted in the gerontology community. This is reflected in recent diagnostic and screening tools, Edmonton Frail Scale and PRISMA 7, including the assessment of several domains of health (Rolfson et al., 2006; Raiche et al., 2008). However, the relative ease of utilising the Frailty Phenotype means it is still used in research as a method of identification of frailty. 1.2. Sarcopenia Sarcopenia can be considered as one of the main physical drivers of frailty or perhaps even a precursor state if it is present without a medical classification of frailty as described above. As with frailty, definitions of sarcopenia have evolved over time reflecting greater understanding of the condition. The current broadly accepted definition includes the effects on function as well as including muscle mass and strength: ‘A syndrome characterised by progressive and generalised loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength with a risk of adverse outcomes such as physical disability, poor quality of life and death.’ (Cruz-Jentoft et al., 2010a). Similar to the frailty phenotype the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP) recommend categorising sarcopenia into pre-sarcopenia, sarcopenia, and severe sarcopenia depending on the presence of certain criteria. They suggest that the pre-sarcopenia stage is characterised by low muscle mass with no impact on muscle strength or physical performance, whereas the sarcopenia stage is low muscle mass with either low muscle strength or low physical performance and severe sarcopenia is the presence of all three criteria (Cruz-Jentoft et al., 2010a). The cut off point for each criterion is not currently standardised and is dependent on both the method of measurement and the researcher. It is generally accepted that low physical performance is defined as a gait speed of less than 0.8m/sec. Low muscle strength is usually defined by handgrip strength of less than 30 kg for men and less than 20 kg for women (Cruz-Jentoft et al., 2010a; Cruz-Jentoft et al., 2010b). Low muscle mass is usually measured by a skeletal muscle mass index with a variety of cut offs quoted in the literature ranging from 7.23 kg/m2 to 8.87 kg/m2 in men and 5.45 kg/m2 to 6.42 kg/m2 in women (Baumgartner et al., 1998; Newman et al., 2003; Chien et al., 2008; Cruz-Jentoft et al., 2010a). The diversity in the cut offs, particularly in defining low muscle mass, utilised in research has led to huge disparity in the prevalence of reported low muscle mass with prevalence reported as between 3.3 to 41.5% in community populations over 65 (von Haehling et al., 2010). This has been recognised by the EWGSOP who have recommended that more research is urgently needed in order to obtain good reference values for populations around the world. The inclusion of both muscle mass and strength within the definition of sarcopenia has partially occurred in response to extensive research which has shown that whilst loss of muscle mass is associated with loss of muscle strength, the relationship is not linear; the decline in strength is more rapid than the concomitant loss of muscle mass. Goodpaster et al. demonstrated in a community dwelling population aged between 70 and 79 that muscle mass declines at 0.5-2% per annum compared to 2–4% loss of muscle strength (Goodpaster et al., 2006). Thus age-related changes in the quality of the muscle may be as important as the reduced mass and reduced muscle quality, notably loss of type II fibres, reduced mitochondrial mass and increased fat infiltration, may contribute to loss of muscle strength and power (Narici and Maffulli, 2010). Potentially a more inclusive definition of sarcopenia may incorporate the loss of muscle mass, reduced muscle quality and a loss of functional strength, as shown in Fig. 1, which depicts age-related changes occurring within the muscle from the whole muscle level through to a cellular level and how these contribute to the loss of muscle mass, quality, strength and power. 1.3. Relationships between frailty and sarcopenia The relationship between frailty and sarcopenia is not yet fully characterised but these conditions share many of the same clinical outcomes, associations and suggested pathophysiology. Despite this, sarcopenia is considered a component of frailty but frailty is not considered a component of sarcopenia. However, there is considerable overlap between the defining criteria of the Frailty Phenotype and sarcopenia. Severe sarcopenia as defined by EWGSOP is pre-frailty by the Fried phenotype. Sarcopenia is often considered a pre-cursor syndrome or the physical component to frailty. D. Wilson et al. / Ageing Research Reviews 36 (2017) 1–10 3 Fig. 1. Age related changed occurring within the muscle. Figure depicting the age related changed occurring within the muscle from a whole muscle level through to a cellular level and their impact on muscle mass, quality, strength and power. CSA – cross sectional area. Sarcopenia is reported to be twice as common as frailty in the general population (von Haehling et al., 2010). The prevalence of both conditions is dependent on population and definition. Using the EWGSOP definition and criteria of sarcopenia the prevalence ranges from 4.6%, community dwelling men in the UK aged 68–76 (Patel et al., 2014), to 68%, male Italian nursing home residents over 70 (Landi et al., 2012). A recent systematic review of frailty prevalence in a community population (Collard et al., 2012) reported the range to be 4.0%, independently mobile men over 65 (Cawthon et al., 2007), to 59.1%, community dwelling Dutch older than 70 (Metzelthin et al., 2010). The calculated weighted average of frailty as defined using the Frailty Phenotype is 9.9% (Collard et al., 2012). Research has shown that in frail community dwelling adults the most common positive Fried criteria was slow gait speed (43%) and weakness (54%), the functional defining criteria of sarcopenia (Rothman et al., 2008). It has also been reported that the relative risk of developing weakness and low activity was higher than developing any other frailty defining criteria over 7.5 years of follow up in initially non-frail women (Xue et al., 2008). This suggests that theoretically while it is possible to have frailty without sarcopenia clinically it is unlikely. However, a recent isolated report investigating the concordance of frailty and sarcopenia demonstrated that frailty was more common than sarcopenia and the concordance between frailty and sarcopenia was poor (Reijnierse et al., 2016). This is the only literature investigating the concordance of frailty and sarcopenia but is contrary to previous understanding and an isolated report. Importantly both frailty and sarcopenia are considered partly reversible conditions. Several epidemiological studies have shown that whilst transition between lesser and greater frailty is always the most frequent outcome, a number of participants will transition from greater to lesser frailty (Gill et al., 2006; Fallah et al., 2011; Espinoza et al., 2012; Lee et al., 2014). Health status and baseline function is important, as those with poor mobility at baseline in a longitudinal study experienced faster acceleration of their frailty than those with good mobility (Fallah et al., 2011). The reversal of frailty has also been demonstrated in intervention studies. A multifactorial intervention in community dwelling frail adults resulted in a significant difference in frailty prevalence between the two groups who were identical at baseline. Of note, the intervention was specific to the individual depending on their positive frailty criteria at baseline assessment, for example those scoring for weight loss would be assessed and managed by a dietician, consistent with a personalised medicine approach. Importantly, this study reported an actual reduction in diagnosis of frailty in the intervention group not just a slowing of progression (Cameron et al., 2013). It is also possible to improve components of frailty and sarcopenia. Several resistance exercise programmes have documented improvements in gait speed and strength in groups of frail older adults, with programmes of 8–12 weeks able to reverse loss of muscle strength equivalent to that lost over 20 years (Fiatarone et al., 1994; LiuAmbrose et al., 2004). Improved understanding of the processes underlying sarcopenia may allow the development of even more efficacious and targeted interventions. 2. Pathophysiology of sarcopenia and frailty The pathophysiology of both sarcopenia and frailty is complex. Proposed models for both syndromes incorporate multiple causes, inter-relationships and elaborate pathways (Fried et al., 2009; Cruz-Jentoft et al., 2010a). However, both syndromes are incompletely characterised and there is insufficient understanding of the underlying cellular mechanisms driving the development and maintenance of states of frailty and sarcopenia. Sarcopenia is better understood than frailty largely due to its effects being concentrated on a single system, the neuromuscular system, and for this reason it has been suggested as a physical model of frailty. 2.1. Regulation of muscle mass Our current understanding of the regulation of muscle mass is predominately based on data from animal studies, with much less known of the key regulatory processes in human muscle. Studies in rodents suggest that muscle synthesis is intrinsically linked with muscle atrophy via the PI3k-Akt pathway which is central to both processes (Schiaffino and Mammucari, 2011). Muscle synthesis is activated by insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) binding to 4 D. Wilson et al. / Ageing Research Reviews 36 (2017) 1–10 Fig. 2. Relationships between inflammaging, sarcopenia and frailty. Figure depicting a proposed model of inflammaging, frailty and sarcopenia. The model describes a central role for inflammaging within the creation and maintenance of frailty and sarcopenia states. IGF-1 receptor which triggers the activation of a signalling pathway including PI3k, Akt, and the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), which in turn phosphorylates S6 kinase and other factors which promote protein synthesis (Schiaffino and Mammucari, 2011). There are multiple modulators of the pathway, both intrinsic and extrinsic. Intrinsic regulators include S6 kinase 1 inhibition of insulin receptor substrate (IRS) (Harrington et al., 2004) and mTORC2 upregulation of Akt (Sarbassov et al., 2005). Extrinsic regulators include: amino acids which can directly activate mTORC1 (Kim et al., 2008; Sancak et al., 2008) and beta adrenergic agents (Kline et al., 2007) and Wnt7a which both upregulate the PI3k-Akt pathway (von Maltzahn et al., 2012). Muscle atrophy via both the ubiquitin proteasome pathway and autophagy lysosomes is centrally regulated by forkhead box proteins (FoxO). FoxO when present in the nucleus induces the ubiquitin E3 ligases atrogen-1 and muscle RING finger protein-1 (MuRF-1) (Williamson et al., 2010) which cause myofibril degradation. FoxO also regulates ATG genes which promote mitochondrial degradation via autophagy (Polager et al., 2008). As expected there are multiple modulators of these pathways and arguably the most important is the effect of Akt on FoxO: Akt phosphorylates FoxO and transports it from the nucleus to the cytoplasm preventing it from inducing either E3 ligases or ATG genes (Stitt et al., 2004; Huang and Tindall, 2007; Jang et al., 2007). Myostatin, via the action of Smad 2 and 3, upregulates FoxO (McFarlane et al., 2006) and muscle disuse produces neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) which enhances FoxO3 mediated transcription of E3 ligases (Suzuki et al., 2007). The majority of studies investigating sarcopenia in humans have suggested that loss of muscle mass is primarily driven by a blunted synthetic response to both feeding and exercise, termed anabolic resistance (Murton and Greenhaff, 2009; Markofski et al., 2015; Wall et al., 2015). Moreover, there is little data to suggest that atrogenes or ubiquitin proteasomal degradative pathways are enhanced in older adults, indeed in the fasted state (when protein breakdown is at its highest) there is no difference in protein turnover or signalling through synthetic pathways such as Akt between young and old adults (Francaux et al., 2016). Anabolic and catabolic pathways may be relevant in periods of extreme inactivity, such as bed rest, and in chronic inflammatory states, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In a recent 5 day bed rest study in well characterised healthy young and old subjects, leg lean mass and strength were reduced only in the old subjects. Both subject groups had blunted mTORC1 signalling and increased MURF1 expression in skeletal muscle after bed rest, but only the older group had reduced amino acid induced protein synthetic rates and increased atrogene expression (Tanner et al., 2015). A study investigating the effect of resistance training in participants with COPD, a chronic inflammatory condition, demonstrated higher levels of MAFbx and MURF1 protein expression (atrogenes) and increased phosphorylation of p70s kinases (Constantin et al., 2013). These studies suggest a decrease in muscle synthesis and an increase in muscle degradation (dysregulated muscle homeostasis) is seen with inactivity and chronic inflammatory conditions. Patients with sepsis are subject to both periods of extreme inactivity and a pro-inflammatory state and could therefore be considered a model of accelerated ageing (Singer et al., 2016). Following sepsis and admission to critical care 70–100% of patients reported prolonged weakness (Callahan and Supinski, 2009) which is due both to muscle loss and changes in muscle cell functionality. This group deserves further study for a link between inflammation and sarcopenia. D. Wilson et al. / Ageing Research Reviews 36 (2017) 1–10 3. Ageing of the immune system The decline in immune function with age, termed immunesenescence, is well documented and includes increased susceptibility to infections, reduced vaccination responses in older adults and increased risk of chronic inflammatory diseases such as Rheumatoid Arthritis (Weng, 2006; Shaw et al., 2010; Goronzy and Weyand, 2013). The many changes that occur in the components of the immune system with age have been reviewed previously (Gruver et al., 2007; Ongradi and Kovesdi, 2010; Shaw et al., 2010) and we will thus consider only those elements of innate immunity that could contribute to frailty and sarcopenia, primarily through their role in inflammation. Immunesenescence includes inflammaging, the increased presence of a low-grade chronic systemic pro-inflammatory state with age (Franceschi et al., 2000; Baylis et al., 2013b). Inflammaging is characterised by increased levels (typically 2–4 fold those seen in healthy young subjects), of pro-inflammatory cytokines such as interleukin 1␤(IL-1␤), interleukin 6 (IL-6) and tissue necrosis factor alpha (TNF␣) as well as c-reactive protein (CRP), and a reduced serum level of anti-inflammatory cytokines including interleukin 10 (IL-10) (Baylis et al., 2013b) and IL-1ra. The factors driving inflammaging are multiple (Fig. 2) and can include increased output of pro-inflammatory cytokines by resting monocytes (Doyle et al., 2010; Jackaman et al., 2013; Pinke et al., 2013), reduced IL-10 production by regulatory lymphocytes (Duggal et al., 2013), increased adiposity leading to production of pro-inflammatory adipokines such as leptin and reduced anti-inflammatory adipokines such as adiponectin (Lutz and Quinn, 2012), reduced physical activity with age (Woods et al., 2012), and senescent cells which build up with age and secrete pro-inflammatory cytokines (Coppe et al., 2010). Neutrophils have a fundamental role in the defence against bacterial infections and in older adults many aspects of their function such as phagocytosis, superoxide production, and NET generation are impaired with age (reviewed in Hazeldine and Lord, 2015). In this review we focus on reduced chemotactic ability (Sapey et al., 2014). Neutrophils migrate from the blood to a site of infection or tissue damage in response to chemoattractants, moving through tissue by releasing proteases such as neutrophil elastase at their leading edge and damaging healthy tissue in the process resulting in inflammation (Cepinskas et al., 1999). Our previous work has shown that chemotaxis is reduced in older adults making migration inefficient, leading to greater tissue damage and secondary systemic inflammation (Niwa et al., 1989; Wenisch et al., 2000; Butcher et al., 2001; Hazeldine et al., 2014; Sapey et al., 2014). Whilst investigation of the role of the immune system in frailty and sarcopenia lags behind similar research into ageing and agerelated conditions, there is evidence that the immune system, and its dysregulation, may play a role in both processes. 3.1. Role of increased systemic inflammation Multiple associations have been demonstrated between frailty and sarcopenia and the individual cytokine components of inflammaging, though evidence of a causal relationship remains to be proven. 3.1.1. Inflammatory cytokines, IL-6 and TNF˛ The potential role of IL-6 in sarcopenia is complex. This cytokine, initially thought to be only produced by immune cells, was eventually identified as being produced by muscle and in this context was termed a ‘myokine’ (Pedersen and Febbraio, 2008). In uninfected individuals muscle is in fact a major source of circulating IL-6. IL6 expression increases acutely in contracting skeletal muscle and is released following exercise (Steensberg et al., 2000), enhancing muscle metabolism, fatty acid oxidation, and glucose uptake 5 (Kelly et al., 2009). However, there is increasing evidence that IL-6 can act via the ubiquitin proteasome muscle degradation pathway, with raised systemic IL-6 associated with increased ubiquitin protein and mRNA (DeJong et al., 2005), E3 ligase protein and mRNA (White et al., 2012) and proteasome activity (Ebisui et al., 1995). In addition IL-6 can induce insulin resistance which suppresses Akt-mTOR activity and inhibits muscle synthesis (Febbraio et al., 2004; Franckhauser et al., 2008). Another pro-sarcopenic effect of inflammation is on the generation of cortisol within tissues. Cortisol is profoundly catabolic and can be synthesised from inactive cortisone in tissues including muscle and bone, by the actions of the enzyme 11␤HSD1 (Morgan et al., 2009). 11␤HSD1 activity increases with age and is induced by cytokines including TNF␣ and IL-6 (Tomlinson et al., 2004). The systemic increase in inflammation with age may indirectly impact on muscle turnover via induction of 11␤HSD1. A positive association between chronically raised serum IL-6 and TNF␣ and frailty has been demonstrated in several epidemiological studies (Leng et al., 2002; Walston et al., 2002; Leng et al., 2004). Higher serum levels of IL-6 predict development of sarcopenia (Payette et al., 2003; Schaap et al., 2006) and increased IL-6 also predicts disability and mortality, recognised outcomes of frailty and sarcopenia (Cesari et al., 2012). In addition, high serum IL-6 and CRP at baseline assessment have been associated with a two to threefold greater risk of losing more than 40% of grip strength over three years (Schaap et al., 2006). Using centenarians as a model for ‘healthy ageing’ has also given some support for a link between IL-6, with frailty and sarcopenia in humans. Specifically, the IL-6 174GG genotype, which is associated with higher plasma levels of IL-6, is under-represented in centenarians (Franceschi and Bonafe, 2003). However, a major limitation in understanding the role of inflammation in sarcopenia is the limited number of studies that have measured inflammatory cytokines, whether at the mRNA or protein level, in human skeletal muscle with age. Two studies comparing healthy young and old males reported 3.3 and 2.8 fold increases in mRNA for IL-1␤ (Przybyla et al., 2006) and TNF␣ (Leger et al., 2008) for older men. A study comparing frail older adults, defined by physical function testing, with young subjects reported raised TNF␣ mRNA and protein in myocytes from the frail subjects. Moreover, an exercise intervention in these frail adults reduced TNF␣ mRNA and protein levels and improved muscle strength (Greiwe et al., 2001). In contrast, three studies have found no differences in skeletal muscle IL-6 mRNA with age (Hamada et al., 2005; Przybyla et al., 2006; Trenerry et al., 2008) and two found no age-related increase in TNF␣ mRNA in males (Hamada et al., 2005) or females (Raue et al., 2007). The apparent discrepancies between studies of systemic inflammation and sarcopenia may indicate that it is the degree and chronicity of inflammation that dictates the effect on muscle mass, strength and quality. Thus relatively mild levels of inflammation such as those seen with normal ageing or with obesity may not be sufficient to effect loss of muscle mass or strength, but could contribute to sarcopenia by affecting metabolic quality (Murton et al., 2017). When systemic inflammation is more severe and accompanied by inflammation in skeletal muscle itself, as may be seen in frailty (Greiwe et al., 2001), then inflammation may also contribute to loss of muscle mass and strength. In support of this proposal exogenous administration of TNF␣ to mice causes: (1) anorexia and muscle loss, achieved via several mechanisms including reduced amino acid availability via upregulation of leptin (Grunfeld et al., 1996; Sarraf et al., 1997); (2) activation of the transcription factor NF-␬B in muscle resulting in myofibre; atrophy and activation of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway (Li and Reid, 2000; Ladner et al., 2003; Cai et al., 2004) and (3) suppression of the Akt-mTOR pathway of protein synthesis (Pijet et al., 2013). In rats, infusion of lipopolysaccharide to mimic sepsis induces a 6 D. Wilson et al. / Ageing Research Reviews 36 (2017) 1–10 Fig. 3. Relationships between dysregulation of PI3k-Akt pathway in neutrophils and sarcopenia and frailty. Figure depicting proposed relationships between dysregulation of PI3k-Akt pathway within neutrophils and muscle and frailty and sarcopenia states. significant systemic inflammatory response and increased expression of IL-6 and TNF␣ mRNA in skeletal muscle associated with loss of muscle mass and strength(Crossland et al., 2008). Moreover, dampening of the inflammatory response in muscle, by the concomitant administration of glucocorticoid, preserved muscle mass (Crossland et al., 2010). TNF␣ directly upregulates the NF␬␤ pathway via I␬␤ kinase (IKK) and induces MuRF-1 expression which causes myofibril degradation via the ubiquitin proteasome pathway (Li and Reid, 2000; Ladner et al., 2003). Multiple chronic inflammatory conditions are associated with muscle loss either described as sarcopenia or cachexia: cancer, heart failure, COPD, chronic kidney disease, Crohn’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV (Evans, 2010; Biolo et al., 2014). Muscle loss has been investigated at a cellular level in COPD, and whilst further research is required to confirm the data, on balance there is an increase in ubiquitin proteasome activity and a decrease in protein synthesis (Constantin et al., 2013). This suggests that the anabolic and catabolic pathways utilising the intra-cellular PI3KAkt pathway are important in the development and maintenance of sarcopenia in chronic inflammatory states. Similar results have been replicated in other chronic inflammatory conditions. 3.1.2. Anti-inflammatory cytokines IL-10, an anti-inflammatory cytokine, declines in the circulation with age in humans (Franceschi et al., 2007; Bartlett et al., 2012). The development of an IL-10 homozygous knockout mouse has provided an interesting and informative model of sarcopenia and frailty as it develops increased muscle weakness and decreased strength with age in comparison to wild type mice (Walston et al., 2008). This mouse also has significantly raised levels of IL-6 at 50 weeks of age (Walston et al., 2008). At 92 weeks of age these mice also show compromised skeletal muscle quality, with reduced skeletal muscle energy metabolism in the form of reduced ATP flux via creatine kinase, and lower free energy released during ATP hydrolysis compared to wild type mice (Akki et al., 2014). These mice also show reduced muscle growth and regeneration after injury (Deng et al., 2012). These data offer one potential explanation for why muscle strength declines more quickly than muscle mass in sarcopenia, however there are currently few reports of associations between IL-10 and frailty or sarcopenia in humans. Only one study has compared IL-10 expression in muscle from young and old subjects and shown a modest increase, 1.4 fold, in IL-10 mRNA in healthy older males (Przybyla et al., 2006) However, an IL-10 polymorphism 1082CC, associated with high serum levels of IL10, is over-represented in centenarians, suggesting an association with longevity at least (Franceschi and Bonafe, 2003). It is therefore important now to confirm if IL-10 expression is reduced in skeletal muscle from sarcopenic older adults to provide support for its role in muscle loss and frailty in humans. There are few studies of other anti-inflammatory cytokines and their expression in skeletal muscle. One study found that interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL1-ra) mRNA was increased 7.2 fold in healthy older males in comparison to younger males (Przybyla et al., 2006) but this has not yet been confirmed by others. The authors suggested this may be a functional response to the elevated IL-1␤ mRNA also demonstrated in the healthy older males. Fig. 2 proposes a relationship between inflammaging, sarcopenia and frailty, representing a coalescence of ideas that may underpin the potential relationship between inflammaging and sarcopenia. At present mechanistic insight cannot be given as further research is required, especially in humans and evidence of a direct causal relationship is thus also missing. 3.1.3. Leukocytes, sarcopenia and frailty Age-related changes to the cells of the innate immune system may contribute indirectly to frailty and sarcopenia via their role in the age-related increase in systemic inflammation. White cell counts and neutrophil numbers after adjustment for the most common confounders are raised in populations of frail older people (Leng et al., 2007; Leng et al., 2009; Collerton et al., 2012). Higher D. Wilson et al. / Ageing Research Reviews 36 (2017) 1–10 neutrophil counts are associated with low levels of physical activity and frailty (Fernandez-Garrido et al., 2014) and a higher white cell count in healthy 60 year olds can predict frailty ten years later (Baylis et al., 2013a). How such changes might affect frailty and sarcopenia is still poorly understood but we attempt to offer some insight here. Neutrophils are the most abundant leukocyte in the blood and we have shown that their chemotactic ability is greatly reduced with age. Consequently migration is inefficient, the neutrophils produce more tissue damage and secondary systemic inflammation as they migrate through tissue (Niwa et al., 1989; Wenisch et al., 2000; Butcher et al., 2001; Hazeldine et al., 2014; Sapey et al., 2014). Therefore it is plausible that neutrophils play a key role in the inflammatory mechanisms seen in sarcopenia and frailty. Neutrophils are central to tissue repair and research has demonstrated in a number of models of muscle injury that neutrophils are recruited to the site of the injury within a couple of hours (Smith et al., 1998; MacIntyre et al., 2000; Quindry et al., 2003). However, migrating neutrophils also cause secondary damage to healthy muscle and studies report that muscle damage is reduced when functioning neutrophils are prevented from migrating to the damaged tissue (Jolly et al., 1986; Korthuis et al., 1988). The original studies used an ischaemia and reperfusion model but subsequent studies have utilised a muscle stretch injury model and directly visualised the muscle damage by microscopy (Brickson et al., 2003). Inefficient neutrophil migration may thus be a major contributor to increased inflammation in older adults especially at times of muscle damage (Fig. 3). Recent data from our group has identified the mechanism underlying reduced chemotaxis in neutrophils from old donors. Inaccurate chemotaxis was associated with constitutive PI3K signalling and selective pharmacological inhibition of PI3K␥ or PI3K␦ restored neutrophil migratory accuracy (Sapey et al., 2014). Moreover, the reduced neutrophil chemotaxis was associated with increased systemic inflammation in the older donors, most likely due to the tissue damage that occurs during neutrophil migration. As there are inhibitors of PI3K␦ currently in clinical trial, this offers a novel route to therapy for immunesenescence and in theory this may also improve frailty and sarcopenia states. As muscle ages it becomes more susceptible to injury and certainly as a person ages dysregulation of entire systems, for example balance and cognition, result in a greater number of injuries (Campbell et al., 1981; van Doorn et al., 2003; Shavlakadze et al., 2010; Shubert, 2011). It can be postulated that muscle injury in an older person combined with immune ageing would cause secondary damage to healthy muscle from aberrantly migrating neutrophils resulting in myocyte damage and apoptosis and loss of muscle fibres. This loss of muscle quality and mass could result in the functional losses and physical weakness of frailty. Research is now required to acquire evidence to test this hypothesis. 4. Conclusions The historical difficulties of definition, measurement and modelling in both sarcopenia and frailty in addition to the fundamental difficulties of investigating complex, multi-factorial syndromes has led to a lack of information regarding the pathophysiological causes of frailty and sarcopenia. Whilst there is some limited research into associations there is very little investigating more complex pathways attempting to link the two syndromes. The suggested link of increased systemic inflammation could explain the relationship between sarcopenia and immunesenescence, with aberrant neutrophil migration potentially contributing to inflammaging and tissue damage associated with sarcopenia and frailty. Further research on the cell pathways connecting inflammaging, 7 sarcopenia and frailty would help to better understand these conditions and progress to potential novel therapies for frailty and sarcopenia which could include modulation of PI3k to correct neutrophil chemotaxis. Acknowledgments Daisy Wilson is supported by a clinical research fellowship funded by the MRC-Arthritis Research UK Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research. Elizabeth Sapey is funded by the Medical Research Council. We would like to thank Professor Paul Greenhaff for his careful reading of the manuscript. We would also like to thank Alexandria Clark for her work in improving the visual appearance of the figures. 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Chapter 3 discussion

Chapter 3 discussion

Recently there has been an extensive amount of research into something called telomere, which is a short sequence

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of base pairs (DNA’s) that are found at the end of chromosomes. This short sequence repeats itself approximately 50-70 times and can be found at the end of the chromosomes found in human cells. There has been a push to isolate them on a person’s leukocytes because they are easy to isolate and locate within the body of these research subjects, but these can be found in other cells.

The proposal as to the function of telomeres is that they were a timepiece for each person; which means that a telomere would drop off at predetermined intervals (maybe 1-2 yrs) and eventually when the telomeres ran out, the cell would either die or undergo the apoptosis process. The telomeres would fall off when the cell produced an enzyme called telomerase. Thus, researchers became fascinated by what appeared to be a biochemical process in direct control of cellular life and death, and that could potentially be in control of death of an organism such as a human.

If you can imagine that these scientists were science fiction writers, they would be dreaming about laboratories throughout the world that could assist their patients to live up to 150 years of age or even longer. The potential for some kind of mediation allowing a person to live longer does appear to be a reality, but possibly not to the extent that many imagine.

Stochastic Theories

Free Radical Theory
Organ/Error Theory
Wear and Tear Theory
Connective Tissue Theory
Non-Stochastic Theories

Programmed Theory
Gene/Biological Clock Theory
Neuroendocrine Theory
Immunologic/Autoimmune Theory
Instructions:

Read the paragraphs above.
Answer the following questions as thoroughly and concisely as possible:
From the list of aging theories above (Stochastic & Non-Stochastic Theories), where would you categorize the “telomere aging theory”? Would it be a Stochastic or Non-Stochastic theory?
Please provide a rationale as to your selection.
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Chapter 12 discussion

Chapter 12 discussion

Discussion #2 For the Elderly, Being Heard About Life’s End New York Times Article By Jane Gross May 5, 2008

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Residents at a New Hampshire center can refuse medical care. Photo- Credit: James Estrin/The New York Times HANOVER, N.H. — Edie Gieg, 85, strides ahead of people half her age and plays a fastpaced game of tennis. But when it comes to health care, she is a champion of “slow medicine,” an approach that encourages less aggressive — and less costly — care at the end of life. Grounded in research at the Dartmouth Medical School, slow medicine encourages physicians to put on the brakes when considering care that may have high risks and limited rewards for the elderly, and it educates patients and families how to push back against emergency room trips and hospitalizations designed for those with treatable illnesses, not the inevitable erosion of advanced age. Slow medicine, which shares with hospice care the goal of comfort rather than cure, is increasingly available in nursing homes, but for those living at home or in assisted living, a medical scare usually prompts a call to 911, with little opportunity to choose otherwise. At the end of her husband’s life, Ms. Gieg was spared these extreme options because she lives in Kendal at Hanover, a retirement community affiliated with Dartmouth Medical School that has become a laboratory for the slow medicine movement. At Kendal, it is possible — even routine — for residents to say “No” to hospitalization, tests, surgery, medication or nutrition. Charley Gieg, 86 at the time, was suffering from a heart problem, an intestinal disorder and the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease when doctors suspected he also had throat cancer. NUR3289 – Fundamentals of Gerontology Page 1 of 4 A specialist outlined what he was facing: biopsies, anesthesia, surgery, radiation or chemotherapy. Ms. Gieg doubted he had the resilience to bounce back. She worried, instead, that such treatments would accelerate his downward trajectory, ushering in a prolonged period of decline and dependence. This is what the Giegs said they feared even more than dying, what some call “death by intensive care.” Such fears are rarely shared among old people, health care professionals or family members, because etiquette discourages it. But at Kendal — which offers a continuum of care, from independent living apartments to a nursing home — death and dying is central to the conversation from Day 1. So it was natural for Ms. Gieg to stay in touch with Joanne Sandberg-Cook, a nurse practitioner there, during her husband’s out-of-town consultation. “I think that it is imperative that none of this be rushed!” Ms. Sandberg-Cook wrote in an e-mail message to Ms. Gieg. The doctor the Giegs had chosen, the nurse explained, “tends to be a ‘do-it-now’ kind of guy.” But the Giegs’ circumstances “demand the time to think about all the what-ifs.” Ms. Sandberg-Cook asked whether Mr. Gieg would want treatment if he was found to have cancer. If not, why go through a biopsy, which might further weaken his voice? Or risk anesthesia, which could accelerate her husband’s dementia? “Those are the very questions on my mind, too,” Ms. Gieg replied. The Giegs took their time, opted for no further tests or treatment, and Charley came back to the retirement community to die. Such decisions are not made lightly, and not without debate, especially in an aging society. Many in their 80s and 90s — and their boomer children — want to pull out all the stops to stay alive, and doctors get paid for doing a procedure, not discussing whether it should be done. The costliest patients — the elderly with chronic illnesses — are the only group with universal health coverage under Medicare, leading to huge federal expenditures that experts agree are unsustainable as boomers age. Most of that money is spent at certain academic medical centers, which offer the most advanced tests, the newest remedies, the most renowned specialists. According to the Dartmouth Health Atlas, which ranks hospitalson the cost and quantity of medical care to elderly patients, New York University Medical Center in Manhattan, for instance, spends $105,000 on an elderly patient with multiple chronic conditions during the last two years of life; U.C.L.A. Medical Center spends $94,000. By contrast, the Mayo Clinic’s main teaching hospital in Rochester, Minn., spends $53, 432. The chief medical officer at U.C.L.A., Dr. Tom Rosenthal, said that aggressive treatment for the elderly at acute care hospitals can be “inhumane,” and that once a patient and family were drawn into that system, “it’s really hard to pull back from it.” “The culture has a built-in bias that everything that can be done will be done,” Dr. Rosenthal said, adding that the pace of a hospital also discourages “real heart-to-heart discussions.” NUR3289 – Fundamentals of Gerontology Page 2 of 4 Beginning that conversation earlier, as they do at Kendal, he said, “sounds like fundamentally the right way to practice.” That means explaining that elderly people are rarely saved from cardiac arrest by CPR, or advising women with broken hips that they may never walk again, with or without surgery, unless they can stand physical therapy. “It’s almost an accident when someone gets what they want,” said Dr. Mark B. McClellan, a former administrator of Medicare and now at the Brookings Institution. “Personal control, quality of life and the opportunity to make good decisions is not automatic in our system. We have to do better.” The term slow medicine was coined by Dr. Dennis McCullough, a Dartmouth geriatrician, Kendal’s founding medical director and author of “My Mother, Your Mother: Embracing Slow Medicine, the Compassionate Approach to Caring for Your Aging Loved One.” Among the hard truths, he said, is that 9 of 10 people who live into their 80s will wind up unable to take care of themselves, either because of frailty or dementia. “Everyone thinks they’ll be the lucky one, but we can’t go along with that myth,” Dr. McCullough said. Ms. Sandberg-Cook agrees. “If you’re never again going to live independently or face an indeterminate period in a disabled state, you may have to reorganize your thinking,” she said. “You need to understand what you face, what you most want to avoid and what you most want to happen.” Kendal begins by asking newcomers whether they want to be resuscitated or go to the hospital and under what circumstances. “They give me an amazingly puzzled look, like ‘Why wouldn’t I?’ “ said Brenda Jordan, Kendal’s second nurse practitioner. She replies with CPR survival statistics: A 2002 study, published in the journal Heart, found that fewer than 2 percent of people in their 80s and 90s who had been resuscitated for cardiac arrest at home lived for one month. “They about fall out of their chairs when they find out the extent to which we’ll go to let people choose,” Ms. Jordan said. Kendal, where the average age is 84, is generally not a place where people want heroics. Dr. George Klabaugh, 88, a resident and retired internist, found himself at the center of controversy a few years back when he tried to revive a 93-year-old neighbor who had collapsed from cardiac arrest during a theatrical performance. Dr. Klabaugh, who was unaware that the man had a “Do Not Resuscitate” order, said he regretted his “automatic reaction,” a vestige of a professional training that predisposes most physicians to aggressive care. Ms. Jordan surveyed Kendal residents and found only one that wanted CPR — Brad Dewey, 92, who dismissed the statistics. “I want them to try anyway,” he said. “Our daughter saved a man on a tennis court. Who’s to say I won’t recover?” Some of the 400 residents, who pay $120,000 to $400,000 for an entry fee, and monthly rent from $2,000, which includes all health care, pursue no-holds-barred treatment longer than others. One woman, for example, arrived with cardiac and pulmonary disease but was still capable of living in her own apartment. First, she had cataract surgery that left her NUR3289 – Fundamentals of Gerontology Page 3 of 4 vision worse. Next, during surgery to replace a worn-out artificial hip, her thigh bone snapped. She spent a year in bed and wound up with blood clots. Then she broke the other leg. Only then, Ms. Jordan said, did the woman decide to forgo further surgery or hospitalizations. The woman was too ill to be interviewed. Some of those most in tune with slow medicine are the adult children who watch a parent’s daily decline. Suzanne Brian, for one, was grateful that her father, then 88 and debilitated by congestive heart failure, was able to stop medications to end his life. “It wasn’t ‘Oh, you have to do this or do that,’ “ Ms. Brian said. “It was my father’s choice. He could have changed his mind at any time. They slowly weaned him from the meds and he was comfortable the whole time. All he wanted was honor and dignity, and that’s what he got.” NUR3289 – Fundamentals of Gerontology Page 4 of 4
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Topic 2 DQ 1

Topic 2 DQ 1

Please Respond to the following post with a paragraph, add citations and references.

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Random sampling is important because it helps avoid unconscious bias from the researchers (Lombrado, 2017). We all have bias and prior knowledge but that should not get in the way of getting valid and reliable data. Random sampling makes sure everyone is getting an equal chance and it is the simplest form of data collection (Lombrado, 2017). One random sampling method is the lottery method. It is random and the researcher does not know who is being picked.

One problem or limitation is that there needs to be a complete list of the people from the population. It needs to be up to date so the data is accurate (Explorable.com, 2009). It is extremely hard to get all of the people on the list. Sometimes there are too many or too little. Having too little or too many people is also problematic. The data always need to be accurate, even with a large population.

There are some ways to prevent problems and limitations. To get the list of the everyone in the population, research can get a representative sample of the target population. It can be obtained from a sampling frame. To get a truly random sampling, researchers may need to spend extra money to hire more people. So they can get information about them and make sure the population is being represented.

Reference

Explorable.com (Jul 13, 2009). Random Sampling. Retrieved Oct 01, 2018 from Explorable.com: https://explorable.com/simple-random-sampling

Lombardo, C. (2017). Retrieved October 1, 2018, from https://vittana.org/17-advantages-and-disadvantage…

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nursing leadership and management

nursing leadership and management

Read Chapter 6 & 7 attached and write a 500 word document APA style, answering the following . include at least to references

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1. Discuss the importance of effective communication in the personal relationship, the therapeutic relationship, and the relationship within the interprofessional health-care team.

2. What similarities and differences can you identify among the above interactions?

3. Explain the concept of congruence between verbal and nonverbal communication.

4. There are many pitfalls to electronic communication. Identify a situation in which an electronic form of communication may result in a miscommunication. What other method of communication would have been more effective?

5. How have you seen ISBAR used during your clinical experiences?

6- Develop a hand-off report for yourself. Include items that you believe are pertinent for safe and effective nursing care. Refer to the information in the chapter for creating this report form. Using the information from the chapter, determine the effectiveness of the system currently in use on your unit for communicating shift-to-shift reports.

7-Dr. Roberts comes into the nurses’ station demanding, “Where are Mr. Adams’s lab reports? I ordered these stat, and they’re not here! Who’s responsible for this patient?” How would you, as the nurse, respond?

8-Explain the concept of accountability in delegation. What are the legal ramifications of accountability in delegation?

9. Dennie and Elias arrive in the unit for the 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. shift. Both nurses completed orientation 4 weeks ago. They find that they will be the only two RNs on the floor that night. There is a census of 48 clients. The remaining staff consists of two NAPs/UAPs and one LPN. What are the responsibilities of the RN, NAP/UAP, and LPN? Can Dennie and Elias effectively delegate client care tasks and care safely for all 48 clients? Use the Delegation Tree to make your decisions.

10. Discuss the differences between direct delegation and indirect delegation.

1. You have to observe delegation procedures in your assigned unit:

A-What considerations does the RN take into account when delegating patient care?

2-You have to look at the unit census and prioritize the patient care:

A- Give the rationale foryour choices.

3.Answer the following questions during your clinical experiences:

a. What specific tasks did your patients require that you might have been able to delegate?

b. How effective was your nurse/preceptor in delegating tasks to others?

c. How did your nurse/preceptor ensure that the tasks were completed safely and a

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NRS433V GCU Relationship Between Obesity & Diabetes PICOT Statement Paper

NRS433V GCU Relationship Between Obesity & Diabetes PICOT Statement Paper

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Research Name Course Date 1 NURSING RESEARCH PROJECT – QUALITATIVE RESEARCH 2 Nursing Research Project: Qualitative Research The research project focuses on the evaluation of the evidence existing regarding the relationship between obesity and diabetes mellitus type II. This research project mainly focuses on the adult population, which is the most affected by this chronic disease. The present report critically analyzes the qualitative information provided by the Look AHEAD research group (2003) regarding this topic. The group specializes in the evaluation of the different causes of diabetes and the design of an appropriate prevention strategy. Background information Even while the cause-effect relationship between obesity and diabetes mellitus type II has been studied in detail, there have been only a few studies that systematically evaluated the causes and impact that obesity poses on diabetes, and on the common complications of the disease on the long run. This lack of information has failed the multiple strategies implemented to try to prevent the disease, such that the number of diabetic people in the United States continues to increase year after year, to the point that physicians currently refer to it as an epidemy. In this regard, the strategies developed so far had focused on the weight loss of the individual. However, as they did not address the entirety of the problem, the impact on the incidence rate of diabetes was negligible in most of the cases. The evaluation carried out by the Look AHEAD research group (2003) is thus crucial for the development of efficient, long-term strategies to reduce the risk of contracting the disease. The research questions addressed through the study is: • Why do weight loss procedure fail to reduce the risk of diabetes? • What other factors may affect the relationship between obesity and diabetes? • How should these factors be part of the long-term effective preventive strategy? NURSING RESEARCH PROJECT – QUALITATIVE RESEARCH 3 Method of the study While the Look AHEAD research group (2003) uses some elements of quantitative research such as the comparison with a control group, the survey carried out is mainly qualitative in the sense that it focuses on the evaluation of the qualitative differences between both the intervention group and the control group. In this regard, the study evaluates the risk of developing the disease in the two groups by comparing how long each of the individuals of the groups takes to produce the first symptoms of the disease, and whether or not the implemented strategies are effective at prolonging this time. Moreover, the study focuses on the evaluation of several variables, such as the presence of cardiovascular diseases, or the symptoms of common complications of the disease like nephropathy, circulatory problems that lead to the necrosis and amputation of the limbs or glaucoma. The overall objective of including these variables in the study is to assess not only the risk of developing the disease but most importantly how obesity affects diabetes and how it may accelerate the process leading to earlier complications. Additionally, the independent variable, that is the intervention carried out on the test group is as well of qualitative nature, as it evaluates the combined application of intensive lifestyle changes including both dieting and exercising. This research approach founds over the exhaustive evaluation of the published literature regarding the relationship between obesity and diabetes. In this regard, the Look AHEAD research group (2003) has evaluated several of the most relevant studies published in the prior five years. In such literature review, the researchers considered both qualitative and quantitative methods to gain a broader point of view and evaluate the possible variables to include in the study carried out. Moreover, this extensive literature review enabled the researchers to build a NURSING RESEARCH PROJECT – QUALITATIVE RESEARCH 4 robust conceptual framework in which to found the current research, hence resulting in a logic flow of the analyses carried out and the conclusions derived from such analyses. The implemented strategy includes: • Training sessions oriented to provide necessary information about diabetes and the impact of obesity on diabetes • Weight loss and regular weight monitoring • Exercising Main results of the study According to the obtained results, the obesity of the individuals would not only increase the incidence rate of diabetes but also of suffering from cardiovascular diseases. As a result, they observed how the higher body mass index of the individuals seemed to relate to a higher incidence rate of both diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Moreover, the results obtained highlight how obese diabetic patients are more likely to experience cardiovascular complications at a substantially earlier stage than non-obese diabetics. The obtained result is thus highly alarming and warns about the necessity of developing effective weight loss strategies to decrease the burden of severe complications on diabetic patients. Nonetheless, the authors suggest the importance of monitoring the incidence that obesity has on the developing of cardiovascular complications in people with diabetes in future follow-up studies on the long-term, as well as the evaluation of the long-term effects of the implemented lifestyle change strategy. For this purpose, the researchers suggest the measurement of several variables on an annual or biannual basis. Among these variables, the follow up would focus on specific NURSING RESEARCH PROJECT – QUALITATIVE RESEARCH diagnostic criteria of diabetes and uncontrolled diabetes such as the level of fasting blood glucose, the correct functioning of the kidneys through the measurement of creatinine and the monitoring of cholesterol and triglycerides. It should as well consider indicators of cardiovascular disease through the realization of a cardiovascular fitness test and an electrocardiogram. Ethical considerations The researchers seem to have requested the approval of an Ethical Review Board and have required the informed consent of the 5,000 people included in the study. Moreover, they provide all the necessary means to protect both their private information and whether they are part of the treatment or the control group. They also seem to have taken into account other potential ethical aspects of concern, such as the voluntary participation in the study. They do not look to evaluate the ethical considerations resulting from the inclusion of the different participants in either the treatment or the control group. However, the fact that the selection of the two different groups was random and used a website model independent from the researcher provides all the participants with the same probability to be part of any of the two groups. Conclusions The provided results and the proposed follow up are congruent with the planed thesis statement and enable the researchers to evaluate whether or not obesity has any incidence on the onset of both diabetes and its most common complications, such as cardiovascular problems or nephropathy. Moreover, the extensive literature review carried out highlights the importance of the study, as it tries to tackle a critical aspect relating obesity to the risk of developing diabetes and how it will affect the prognosis of the disease. This information is crucial for the 5 NURSING RESEARCH PROJECT – QUALITATIVE RESEARCH development of an effective preventive strategy oriented at decreasing the high incidence rate of diabetes mellitus type II among the American citizens. From this point of view, the information provided in the selected paper does not only provide useful takeaways to nursing practice but most importantly outlines the methods to use when evaluating the cause-effect relationship with multiple other diseases. In this regard, the systematic approach to the problem as that carried out by the researchers of the Look AHEAD group applies to any other nursing research project. 6 NURSING RESEARCH PROJECT – QUALITATIVE RESEARCH 7 Reference Look AHEAD Research Group. (2003). Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes): design and methods for a clinical trial of weight loss for the prevention of cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetes. Controlled clinical trials, 24(5), 610-628. Running Head: QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH CRITIQUE AND ETHICAL ISSUES Quantitative Research Critique and Ethical Considerations Wendy Fernandez Grand Canyon University NRS – 433V Cindy Mcdonald 09/24/2018 1 QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH CRITIQUE AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS 2 Quantitative Research Critique and Ethical Considerations Background The previously presented case seeks to respond to the research questions meant to identify the possible pieces of evidence that may show that weight loss significantly contributes towards the reduction of Diabetes Mellitus type II amongst adults in the US. This research question needs the researcher to look for the previously presented pieces of evidence from both a qualitative as well as a quantitative approach which would, in the long run, contribute a large part towards coming up with a conclusive answer that satisfies the case. This paper primarily focuses on using the quantitative approach, individually, analyzing one of the previously highlighted pieces of research which would form a basis for making sound and final recommendations. The first part of this paper looks at the background of the presented study, the findings and their significance to nursing practice, the methodology adopted and finally, the possible issues of concern from an ethics perspective offered by the authors and the entire piece of work. A study presented by Laaksonen et al., (2005) as highlighted in the previous paper sought to determine the possible impacts that increased physical activity amongst the affected adults would help to prevent the occurrence or risks of Diabetes Mellitus Type II. This study focused primarily on the determination of the effects that weight loss amongst the affected population may reduce the impacts of diabetes mellitus type II. Therefore, this paper based its arguments from the notion that a change in the overall lifestyle of the population may contribute a large part towards the perceived reduction in risks of diabetes mellitus type II. However, the authors in this case claim that although the clinical trials performed by the various parties create a connection between a reduction in risks of diabetes mellitus type II due to a change in the overall lifestyle. QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH CRITIQUE AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS 3 The previously presented studies do not, however, show the link or effects of leisure time physical activity otherwise referred to as LTPA to reducing effects of the condition. Method In the attempt to come up with conclusive findings, the authors, in this case, performed a post hoc evaluation seeking to identify the possible role or significance of LTPA in the reduction of risks associated with diabetes mellitus type II amongst the various adults in the selected regions. The study chose a total of 487 subjects comprised of both men and women who suffered from glucose tolerance and previously undertook the LTPA questionnaires in the past 12 months. Besides, this research identified the subjects from the Finish Diabetes Prevention Study which serves as a trial based on randomized analysis primarily addressing the issues of weight loss, diet changes and also leisure time physical activities amongst the targeted population. Results After conducting the study, the researchers, in this case, gathered all the required information from the previous issues questionnaires for further analysis. The authors after analyzing the collected data tabled the results and found out that some of the participants adopted measures meant to improve their lifestyles. For instance, approximately 63-65% of the participants changed their lifestyle by taking vigorous leisure-time physical activity. Such a change in the lifestyle contributed a large part in reducing the chances of them suffering further from diabetes mellitus type II. The study after considering the differences in behavior of the subjects over the 4.1 years period of follow up concluded that some of the participants recorded an improvement in their overall physical health. The research found that the presented study showed a difference in health improvement between the [participants who adopted positive QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH CRITIQUE AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS 4 measures in regards to the proposed lifestyle changes to those who ignored them. The research found out that a total of 95% of the participants practiced at minimum moderate, vigorous and also strenuous LTPA which resulted into a reduced level of risks of getting diabetes Mellitus type II a ta value of 0.5. The presented findings may bring about a set of implications from a clinical and also a medical perspective. For instance, the study completed shows that those people who practiced LTPA vigorously or at a minimum moderately stood a better chance of reducing the risks of diabetes mellitus type II. Further, the study showed that an increase in physical activity amongst the affected population formed the basis for reducing the risks or effects of diabetes mellitus type II. This conclusion means that the affected community, especially, those who suffer from diabetes mellitus type II and are overweight or obese may benefit from this study. The primary significance of this study based on the obtained results revolves around creating a connection between changes in lifestyle and reducing the impacts or risks of diabetes mellitus type II amongst the overweight or obese populations. With such evidence-based research, the findings may play a critical part in boosting the overall approach that the medical and clinical teams use to address the issues of diabetes mellitus type II from a weight and lifestyle perspective. The study implies that the clinical teams in addition to using the various medical procedures should consider advocating and supporting the use of leisure time physical activity with the primary aim of boosting a healthy lifestyle of the affected population to reduce the risks of diabetes mellitus type II. The obese or overweight communities who suffer from diabetes mellitus type II may need to practice strenuous or vigorous LTPA with the aim of improving their lifestyle and also to support the offered QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH CRITIQUE AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS 5 medications which in the long run would create a better platform for reducing the risks or impacts of diabetes mellitus type II. Ethical considerations Based on the provided information, this study does not show the criteria for selecting the women and men who participated in the research. Further, the study does not give details on seeking consent from the participants before enrolling them in the study. Besides, the researchers, in this case, used a relatively long period to complete the research without considering the various factors that would undermine the credibility of the final results. Finally, the analysis, in this case, fails to exclusively provide information on the practices used to guarantee the validity of the questionnaires used. QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH CRITIQUE AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS 6 References Laaksonen, D. E., Lindström, J., Lakka, T. A., Eriksson, J. G., Niskanen, L., Wikström, K., … & Ilanne-Parikka, P. (2005). Physical activity in the prevention of type 2 diabetes: the Finnish diabetes prevention study. Diabetes, 54(1), 158-165. Running head: PICOT RESEARCH QUESTIONS PICOT Research Questions Name: Wendy Fernandez Course: NRS – 433V Date: 9/16/18 1 PICOT RESEARCH QUESTIONS 2 PICOT Research Questions The proposed research question addresses the efficiency of the different techniques used in the prevention of diabetes. Specifically, it focuses on the relationship between following a healthy diet, weight loss and diabetes, as obesity has repeatedly appeared as one of the leading causes of diabetes mellitus type II. Table 1 summarizes the critical information used in the PICOT formulation of the research question. Table 1: PICOT variables considered in the study P I C O T Obese adults with a body mass index over 30 Development of an effective weight loss strategy The control group in the study should not follow any weight loss strategy Lower risk of diabetes mellitus type II One year The research question taking this information into account is: “Is there any evidence-based of how losing weight reduces the risk of diabetes mellitus type II in adults showing a body mass index higher than 30 before it is too late?” PICOT RESEARCH QUESTIONS 3 References Delahanty, L. M., & Nathan, D. M. (2008). Implications of the diabetes prevention program and Look AHEAD clinical trials for lifestyle interventions. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 108(4), S66-S72. Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) Research Group. (2002). The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP): description of lifestyle intervention. Diabetes Care, 25(12), 2165-2171. Franz, M. J., Bantle, J. P., Beebe, C. A., Brunzell, J. D., Chiasson, J. L., Garg, A., … & Purnell, J. Q. (2002). Evidence-based nutrition principles and recommendations for the treatment and prevention of diabetes and related complications. Diabetes Care, 25(1), 148-198. PICOT RESEARCH QUESTIONS 4 Franz, M. J., VanWormer, J. J., Crain, A. L., Boucher, J. L., Histon, T., Caplan, W., … & Pronk, N. P. (2007). Weight-loss outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of weight-loss clinical trials with a minimum 1-year follow-up. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 107(10), 1755-1767. PICOT RESEARCH QUESTIONS 5 Laaksonen, D. E., Lindström, J., Lakka, T. A., Eriksson, J. G., Niskanen, L., Wikström, K., … & Ilanne-Parikka, P. (2005). Physical activity in the prevention of type 2 diabetes: the Finnish diabetes prevention study. Diabetes, 54(1), 158-165. Look AHEAD Research Group. (2003). 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Critical thinking is defined as “the disciplined, intellectual process of applying skillful reasoning as a guide to belief or action” (Norris & Ellis, 1989). Critical thinking in nursing is “the ability to think in a systematic and logical manner with openness to question and reflect on the reasoning process used to ensure safe nursing practice and quality care” (The Foundation for Critical Thinking [TFCT], 2008). This is very important because as nurses, we need to be aware of and thinking about all the possible effects of our patients’ disease processes. For example, if we are taking care of a patient who hasn’t had a bowel movement in multiple days. We can’t just sit by idly and wait for him to have a bowel movement. We need to be thinking: Is he showing signs of a bowel obstruction? Or what has his food intake been? What are his vital signs and how could they be affecting anything, etc.?

As nurses, we use critical thinking to care for our patient and be proactive about preventing certain negative side effects or things from happening. In my opinion, the better critical thinker you are, the better nurse you are. This has a direct effect on patient outcomes as the patient will be better taken care of if their nurse is anticipating things that could go wrong and be ready with a solution or prevent effects or symptoms from happening in the first place.

Evidence-based practice (EBP) is described as “the integration of clinical expertise, the most up-to-date research, and patient’s preference to care” (Grand Canyon University, 2018). Basically, it involves nurses using the most up to date scientific research and outcomes to help guide their care of patients. EBP has a direct relationship with patient outcomes because if used properly it saves lives. EBP as shown to be effective throughout its research, so why would we not use that to our advantage when taking care of our patients?

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Grand Canyon University. (Ed.). (2018). Dynamics in nursing: Art and science of professional practice.

Norris, S. P. & Ennis, R.H. (1989). Evaluating critical thinking. Pacific Grove, CA: Midwest Publications,

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The Foundation for Critical Thinking. (2008). Critical thinking and nursing. Retrieved from

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