Socioeconomic vulnerability and frailty among community-dwelling older adults: cross-sectional findings from longitudinal aging study in India, 2017–18

Table 5 Logistic regression estimates for physical frailty among older adults by their vulnerability status in India, 2017–18

Background characteristics	Model-1	Model-2	Model-3
Background characteristics	UOR	AOR	AOR
Vulnerability status
No	Ref.	Ref.
Yes	1.08*(1.01,1.16)	1.14*(1.06,1.24)
Sex
Male	Ref.	Ref.
Female	1.32*(1.26,1.39)	0.97 (0.9,1.03)
Sex # Vulnerability status
Male # No	Ref.		Ref.
Female # No	1.34*(1.27,1.42)		0.97 (0.90.1.04)
Male # Yes	1.16*(1.03,1.29)		1.18*(1.04,1.34)
Female # Yes	1.33*(1.21,1.46)		1.08*(1.01,1.21)

*if p < 0.05; AOR Adjusted odds ratio, UOR: Unadjusted odds ratio; #: interaction effect; Model-1 is the unadjusted model; Model-2 and 3 are the adjusted models adjusted for the background characteristics (age, living arrangement, marital status, working status, social participation, self-rated health, depression, difficulty in ADL, difficulty in IADL, morbidity status, religion, place of residence, region)

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