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Table 4 Correlations between frailty and demographic, sensory and motor variables

From: Sensory and motor correlates of frailty: dissociation between frailty phenotype and frailty index

 

FP criteria (number)

FI

Age (years)

Body mass index

MMSE

CES-D

Visual acuity

Hearing threshold

Mechan-ical detection threshold

Purdue Pegboard score

SPPB score

FP criteria (number)

1.000

          

FI

0.497**

1.000

         

Age (years)

0.242

0.269

1.000

        

Body mass index

-0.104

0.250

-0.120

1.000

       

MMSE

-0.147

-0.032

-0.377*

0.232

1.000

      

CES-D

0.293

0.532**

0.149

0.077

-0.122

1.000

     

Visual acuity

-0.017

0.218

0.434**

0.205

-0.220

-0.007

1.000

    

Hearing threshold

0.000

0.130

0.452**

0.030

-0.140

0.011

0.313*

1.000

   

Mechanical detection threshold

0.168

-0.030

0.144

-0.103

-0.278

0.087

-0.078

0.288

1.000

  

PPT score

-0.417**

-0.430**

-0.282

-0.021

0.534**

-0.225

-0.143

-0.095

-0.323*

1.000

 

SPPB score

-0.392**

-0.645**

-0.229

-0.094

-0.012

-0.356*

-0.196

0.002

-0.142

0.329*

1.000

  1. CES-D Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, FI Frailty index, FP Frailty phenotype, MMSE Mini-mental state examination, PPT Purdue Pegboard Test, SPPB Short physical performance battery
  2. *p ≤ 0.05; ** p ≤ 0.01