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Table 3 Association of disability status with mortality in the whole population and different age groups

From: Disability and the risk of subsequent mortality in elderly: a 12-year longitudinal population-based study

Disability status at baseline

Overall

65–79 years

More than 80 years

P for difference between age groups

Death/Survival (9917/3712)

HR (95%CI) a

Death/Survival (1759/2372)

HR (95%CI) a

Death/Survival (8158/1340)

HR (95%CI) a

Disability

 No

6324/3297

Reference

1589/2274

Reference

4735/1023

Reference

 

 Yes

3593/415

1.68 (1.48, 1.90)***

170/98

1.74 (1.42, 2.14) ***

3423/317

1.57 (1.40, 1.76) ***

0.189

ADLs Index

 A

6324/3297

Reference

1589/2274

Reference

4735/1023

Reference

 

 B

1486/277

1.44 (1.23, 1.67) ***

109/81

1.58 (1.25, 2.00) ***

1377/196

1.22 (1.06, 1.39) **

0.029

 C

475/41

2.16 (1.52, 3.07) ***

12/7

1.77 (0.87, 3.59)

463/34

2.55 (2.08, 3.11) ***

0.166

 D

204/14

2.45 (1.53, 3.90) ***

11/2

2.57 (1.19, 5.54) *

193/12

2.11 (1.45, 3.08) ***

0.329

 E

307/23

2.33 (1.55, 3.51) ***

6/1

2.21 (0.99, 4.91)

301/22

2.34 (1.53, 3.57) ***

0.451

 F

386/16

2.71 (1.95, 3.75) ***

16/2

3.15 (1.76, 5.61) ***

370/14

2.29 (1.61, 3.26) ***

0.179

 G

350/12

4.45 (2.69, 7.38) ***

10/0

24.09 (10.83, 53.60) ***

340/12

2.56 (1.75, 3.74) ***

< 0.001

 Others

385/32

1.73 (1.14, 2.61) **

6/5

1.09 (0.43, 2.79)

379/27

2.17 (1.50, 3.12) ***

0.091

  1. Abbreviations: ADLs activities of daily living, HR hazard ratio, CI confidence interval
  2. aMultivariate model tests are adjusted for age, sex, education, family income level, marital status, smoke, drink, residence, co-residence, hypertension, diabetes, cerebrovascular diseases, dementia, Parkinson’s and cancer using the survey weights
  3. ***P < 0.001
  4. **P < 0.01
  5. *P < 0.05