Table 2 Transitions in frailty status among the survivors according to gender and age
Characteristics | Frailty transitions during 2 years, n (%) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Robust (n = 3084, 80.4%) | Prefrail (n = 625, 16.3%) | Frail (n = 129, 3.4%) | |||||
Stability | Worsening | Improvement | Stability | Worsening | Improvement | Stability | |
Gender | |||||||
 Male | 1197 (82.8) | 249 (17.2) | 92 (53.5) | 52 (30.2) | 28 (16.3) | 9 (30.0) | 21 (70.0) |
 Female | 1158 (70.7) | 480 (29.3) | 157 (34.7) | 201 (44.4) | 95 (21.0) | 41 (41.4) | 58 (58.6) |
P value | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | 0.261 | ||||
Age, years | |||||||
 60~ | 1700 (83.4) | 338 (16.6) | 113 (53.1) | 78 (36.6) | 22 (10.3) | 15 (51.7) | 14 (48.3) |
 70~ | 554 (65.6) | 291 (34.4) | 107 (38.2) | 120 (42.9) | 53 (18.9) | 16 (32.7) | 33 (67.3) |
 80~ | 101 (50.2) | 100 (49.8) | 29 (22.0) | 55 (41.7) | 48 (36.4) | 19 (37.3) | 32 (62.7) |
P value | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | 0.238 | ||||