Association of 2D:4D digit ratio with frailty and MMSE

• Author(s): Gonçalves, Celina ; Rocha, Nuno Barbosa
• Date: 2017
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/19258
• Origin: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
• Subject(s): Testosterone; Cognitive decline; Elderly people; Frailty
• Document Type: Conference object
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Biblioteca Digital do IPB

Description

The 2D:4D ratio is an indicator of prenatal testosterone exposure (Fink, Manning, & Neave, 2006) and it is a fairly stable one (Anders, 2007). While there are some studies about the role of testosterone on frailty (Srinivas-Shankar & Wu, 2009) and cognitive decline (Moffat, 2005) in older adults, very few analyze the impact of prenatal testosterone exposure (Halil et al., 2013). Our aim was to understand the relation between 2D:4D ratio, frailty and cognitive decline in community-dwelling elderly people.