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Table 3 Cross-sectional analyses of baseline MF, SF and PF with prevalent functional and severe disability

From: A bio-psycho-social approach for frailty amongst Singaporean Chinese community-dwelling older adults – evidence from the Singapore Longitudinal Aging Study

 

Functional Disability

Severe Disability

 

N

%

OR (95% CI) Un-adjusted

P

OR (95% CI) Adjusted1

P

N

%

OR (95% CI) Un-adjusted

P

OR (95% CI) Adjusted1

P

Total

2387

     

2387

     

Physical frailty

382/1154

33.1

2.45 (2.02–2.98)

< 0.001

1.73 (1.40–2.25)

< 0.001

28/1154

2.4

15.31 (3.64–64.39)

< 0.001

7.34 (1.68–32.04)

0.008

Mental frailty

244/657

37.1

2.37 (1.95–2.89)

< 0.001

1.78 (1.43–2.23)

< 0.001

24/657

3.7

10.89 (4.43–26.77)

< 0.001

5.52 (2.15–14.22)

< 0.001

Social frailty

155/438

35.4

1.91 (1.53–2.39)

< 0.001

1.26 (0.97–1.63)

0.078

16/438

3.7

5.24 (2.54–10.82)

< 0.001

2.19 (1.00–4.76)

0.048

 

2387

     

2387

     

Robust without MF or SF

144/884

16.3

1.00

 

1.00

 

2/884

0.2

1.00

 

1.00

 

Robust with MF and/or SF

63/349

18.1

1.13 (0.82–1.57)

0.456

1.16 (0.82–1.63)

0.404

0/349

0.0

NE

–

NE

–

Pre-frail without MF or SF

136/611

22.3

1.47 (1.13–1.91)

0.004

1.31 (1.00–1.74)

0.053

2/611

0.3

1.45 (0.20–10.31)

0.711

1.39 (0.19–9.98)

0.741

Pre-frail with MF and/or SF

183/462

39.6

3.37 (2.60–4.36)

< 0.001

2.58 (1.94–3.43)

< 0.001

8/462

1.7

7.77 (1.64–36.75)

0.010

6.99 (1.43–34.01)

0.016

Frail without SF or MF

8/15

53.3

5.87 (2.10–16.45)

0.001

2.88 (0.99–8.40)

0.052

1/15

6.7

31.50 (2.70–367.90)

0.006

25.72 (2.10–314.94)

0.011

Frail with MF and/or SF

55/66

83.3

25.69 (13.13–50.29)

< 0.001

15.78 (7.76–32.09)

< 0.001

17/66

25.8

153 (34.37–681.01)

< 0.001

125.17 (25.97–603.17)

< 0.001

Robust without MF or SF

144/884

16.3

1.00

 

1.00

 

2/884

0.2

1.00

 

1.00

 

Robust with MF and/or SF

63/349

18.1

1.13 (0.82–1.57)

0.456

1.15 (0.82–1.62)

0.412

0/349

0.0

NE

–

NE

–

Pre-frail or Frail without SF or MF

144/626

23.0

1.54 (1.19–1.99)

0.001

1.34 (1.02–1.77)

0.036

3/626

0.5

2.12 (0.35–12.75)

0.410

1.82 (0.30–11.06)

0.514

Pre-frail or Frail with MF and/or SF

238/528

45.1

4.22 (3.29–5.40)

< 0.001

3.10 (2.36–4.08)

< 0.001

25/528

4.7

21.92 (5.17–92.92)

< 0.001

15.37 (3.47–67.98)

< 0.001

  1. 1Models for Physical frailty, mental frailty and social frailty include: gender, age, comorbidity, physical frailty, mental frailty and social frailty. Models for all other predictors include: gender, age and comorbidity
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