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Table 2 Factors influencing frailty screening index, pre-frailty, frailty, and oral frailty score

From: Influence of oral health on frailty in patients with type 2 diabetes aged 75 years or older

Factors influencing frailty screening index, model: p < 0.0001

  Variable

Estimate

S.E.

t value

p

  Sex (male)

-0.12

0.09

-1.31

0.1936

  Age

0.04

0.02

1.62

0.1078

  HbA1c

0.15

0.12

1.25

0.2143

  OFI-8 score

0.14

0.04

3.13

0.0022

  DASC8

0.15

0.03

4.94

<0.0001

  BMI

0.05

0.02

2.28

0.0245

Factors influencing pre-frailty, model: < 0.001

  Variable

Estimate

S.E.

Chi-square

p

  Sex (male)

-0.40

0.26

2.43

0.119

  Age

0.08

0.07

1.33

0.2489

  OFI-8 score

0.29

0.13

5.04

0.0248

  DASC-8

0.38

0.13

8.57

0.0034

  BMI

0.14

0.06

4.67

0.0307

Factors influencing frailty, model: p < 0.0001

  Variable

Estimate

S.E.

Chi-square

p

  OFI-8 score

0.44

0.17

6.41

0.0114

  DASC-8

0.24

0.09

7.52

0.0061

Factors influencing OFI-8 score, model: p = 0.0024

  Variable

Estimate

S.E.

t value

p

  Sex (male)

-0.35

0.19

-1.85

0.0673

  Age

0.09

0.052

1.75

0.0835

  Duration of diabetes

0.039

0.016

2.45

0.0159

  HbA1c

-0.30

0.25

-1.17

0.2446

  DASC-8

0.087

0.066

1.33

0.1868

  1. DASC-8 the dementia assessment sheet for community-based integrated care system-8 items, OFI-8 oral frailty index-8