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Table 3 Impact of frailty status on incident disability after 2 years

From: The effect of sex and physical frailty on incident disability after 2 years among community-dwelling older adults: KFACS study

Incident disability

Frailty status at baseline

Men

Frailty status at baseline

Women

Univariable

Multivariable

Univariable

Multivariable

OR

95% CI

OR

95% CI

OR

95% CI

OR

95% CI

Mobility disability

Robust (n = 615)

Ref

 

Ref

 

Robust (n = 533)

Ref

 

Ref

 

Pre-frail (n = 482)

2.60

(1.99, 3.41)

2.49

(1.66,3.72)

Pre-frail (n = 659)

2.95

(2.33,3.75)

2.77

(1.93, 3.98)

Frail (n =65)

17.67

(9.16, 34.08)

9.89

(4.28, 22.86)

Frail (n = 101)

18.81

(8.56,41.32)

14.00

(4.8, 40.78)

ADL disability

Robust (n = 611)

Ref

 

Ref

 

Robust (n = 524)

Ref

 

Ref

 

Pre-frail (n = 473)

6.46

(0.75,55.47)

0.00

(0.00, 0.00)

Pre-frail (n = 636)

2.27

(0.72,7.16)

0.78

(0.12, 5.17)

Frail (n = 55)

33.33

(3.41,325.81)

0.00

(0.00, 0.00)

Frail (n = 83)

14.20

(4.28,47.18)

10.71

(1.21, 94.63)

IADL disability

Robust (n = 631)

Ref

 

Ref

 

Robust (n = 569)

Ref

 

Ref

 

Pre-frail (n = 486)

2.18

(1.4,3.38)

1.58

(0.81,3.08)

Pre-frail (n = 665)

3.97

(2.21,7.15)

3.01

(1.28,7.09)

Frail (n = 59)

7.55

(4.2,13.57)

3.19

(1.17,8.70)

Frail (n = 86)

16.07

(8.28,31.16)

7.22

(2.67,19.56)

  1. Multivariable: adjusted for age, low education level, marital status, residence, social security recipient, smoking status, alcohol intake, body mass index, number of comorbidities; Mobility disability: Participants who answered ‘difficult’ to walk around the perimeter of a playground (approximately 400 m) or to climb a flight of stairs (10 steps); ADL disability: ‘partially dependent’ or ‘fully dependent’ to any of five ADL components; IADL disability: ‘partially dependent’ or ‘fully dependent’ to two of ten IADL components