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Table 2 Characteristics of patients admitted to the MUPA Unit for falls

From: Prevalence of mild hyponatremia and its association with falls in older adults admitted to an emergency geriatric medicine unit (the MUPA unit)

Variables

Falls

(n = 188)

Non-falls

(n = 471)

P-value

Age (y, mean ± SD)

87 ± 5.9

87 ± 5.6

0.73

Female n (%)

122 (64.9)

287 (60.9)

0.34

Frailty evaluation – SEGA (mean ± SD)

13.1 ± 3.5

13.7 ± 4.2

0.07

 Little frail (SEGA ≤8), n (%)

19 (10.1)

48 (10.2)

0.66

 Frail (8 < SEGA ≤11), n (%)

30 (16.0)

57 (12.1)

0.26

 Very Frail (SEGA > 11), n (%)

109 (57.9)

262 (55.6)

0.77

 Unknown, n (%)

30 (16.0)

104 (22.1)

0.17

Autonomy evaluation – ADL (mean ± SD)

4.6 ± 1.5

3.6 ± 2.0

<  0.0001

Morisky (mean ± SD)

3.3 ± 1.1

3.6 ± 1.1

0.08

Emergency frailty score – ISAR (mean ± SD)

3.8 ± 1.0

3.8 ± 1.2

0.83

 Subjects not at risk (ISAR < 2), n (%)

1 (0.5)

10 (2.1)

0.19

 Subjects at risk (ISAR ≥2), n (%)

112 (59.6)

237 (50.3)

0.25

 Unknown, n (%)

75 (39.9)

224 (47.6)

0.27

Geriatric depression scale – GDS (mean ± SD)

1.2 ± 1.4

1.5 ± 1.5

0.18

 No depression (GDS = 0), n (%)

51 (27.1)

87 (18.5)

0.05

 Depression (GDS ≥ 1), n (%)

56 (29.8)

132 (28.0)

0.78

 Unknown, n (%)

81 (43.1)

252 (53.5)

0.27

Number of diseases (mean ± SD)

2.5 ± 2.0

3.2 ± 2.1

0.0008

Number of drugs (mean ± SD)

6.0 ± 3.0

6.6 ± 3.1

0.05

  1. Student’s t tests were used for comparisons of quantitative variables and Fisher’s exact tests were used for comparisons of qualitative variables between groups