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Table 3 Prevalence of Fried frailty scores in wave 2 and wave 4 of ELSA

From: Developing a composite outcome measure for frailty prevention trials – rationale, derivation and sample size comparison with other candidate measures

Fried Frailty score

Wave 2 (N = 4650)

Wave 4 (N = 2714)

Mean age (years) (SD)

70.8 (7.9)

69.3 (6.9)

Male sex (%)

2560 (55.1)

1230 (45.3)

0 (%)

Robust (%)

 

2226 (47.9)

 

1282 (47.2)

1 (%)

Prefrail (%)

1287 (27.7)

1907 (41.0)

747 (27.5)

1108 (40.8)

2 (%)

620 (13.3)

361 (13.3)

3 (%)

Frail (%)

349 (7.5)

517 (11.1)

223 (8.2)

324 (11.9)

4 (%)

150 (3.2)

85 (3.1)

5 (%)

18 (0.4)

16 (0.6)