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Table 1 Characteristics of the study participants

From: Translation and validation of the Korean version of the clinical frailty scale in older patients

 

Participants (N = 100)

Age (years)

75.6 (7.0)

Sex

 Male

63 (63.0)

 Female

37 (37.0)

Body mass index (kg/m2)

21.7 (3.5)

Comorbidity

 Chronic lung disease

44 (44.0)

 Hypertension

38 (38.0)

 Cancer (oncology/hematology)

32 (32.0)

 Diabetes

30 (30.0)

 Cardiac disease (ischemic/vascular)

26 (26.0)

 Cerebrovascular disease

17 (17.0)

 Chronic kidney disease

11 (11.0)

Location

 Outpatient

10 (10.0)

 Inpatient

90 (90.0)

Primary admission cause in ward patients (N = 90)

 Pneumonia

38 (42.2)

 AE of underlying lung disease

11 (12.2)

 Cardiac disease

14 (15.6)

 Other infection

5 (5.6)

 Cancer related problems

22 (24.4)

K-MMSE scorea

22.2 (7.2)

  1. K-MMSE Korean version of the Mini-Mental State Examination
  2. Values are mean (SD) or number (%)
  3. aData were obtained from 96 (96%) participants