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Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics of the participants

From: Associations of multicomponent exercise and aspects of physical performance with frailty trajectory in older adults

 

Regular group (n = 90)

Multicomponent exercise group (n = 69)

Total (n = 159)

Age

 Mean ± SD

75.82 ± 7.61

74.52 ± 7.74

75.26 ± 7.67

Gender

 Male

19 (21.1%)

10 (14.5%)

29 (18.2%)

 Female

71 (78.9%)

59 (85.5%)

130 (81.8%)

Education

 Elementary school

60 (66.7%)

46 (66.7%)

106 (66.7%)

 Junior high school

12 (13.3%)

13 (18.8%)

25 (15.7%)

 Senior high school and above

18 (20.0%)

10 (14.5%)

28 (17.6%)

Diseases

 Mean ± SD

1.20 ± 0.96

1.41 ± 1.10

1.29 ± 1.03

 Hypertension (Yes)

40 (44.4%)

31 (44.9%)

71 (44.7%)

 Diabetes (Yes)

21 (23.3%)

11 (15.9%)

32 (20.1%)

Fall

 No

67 (74.4%)

51 (73.9%)

118 (74.2%)

 Yes

23 (25.6%)

18 (26.1%)

41 (25.8%)

Exercise

 No

12 (13.3%)

9 (13.0%)

21 (13.2%)

 Yes

78 (86.7%)

60 (87.0%)

138 (86.8%)

Frailty (0–5)

 Mean ± SD

1.11 ± 0.98

0.97 ± 1.16

1.05 ± 1.06

 Robust (0)

27 (30)

34 (49.3)*

61 (38.4)

 Prefrailty (1–2)

54 (60)

26 (37.7)

80 (50.3)

 Frailty (> 3)

9 (10)

9 (13)

18 (11.3)

  1. Statistics are displayed as Mean ± SD for the continuous variables and n (%) for the categorical variables