Longitudinal associations of housework with frailty and mortality in older adults: Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Study 2

Table 5 Associations of changes in other physical activity with prefrailty/frailty and all-cause mortality

	Prefrailty/Frailty ^a		All-cause mortality ^b
	OR (95%CI)	P value	HR (95%CI)	P value
Light housework and other physical activity from LAPAQ
Changes in light housework (hours/week)	0.99 (0.97-1.02)	0.482	0.98 (0.96-0.99)	0.003*
Baseline light housework (hours/week)	0.98 (0.96-1.01)	0.261	0.97 (0.95-0.99)	<0.001*
Changes in walking (hours/week)	0.98 (0.95-1.01)	0.149	0.99 (0.93-1.05)	0.584
Baseline walking (hours/week)	0.98 (0.94-1.03)	0.330	0.99 (0.94-1.05)	0.667
Changes in sport (hours/week)	0.94 (0.90-0.98)	0.006*	0.94 (0.79-1.13)	0.433
Baseline sport (hours/week)	0.89 (0.84-0.95)	0.001*	0.88 (0.74-1.05)	0.124
Heavy housework and other physical activity from LAPAQ
Changes in heavy housework (hours/week)	1.02 (0.97-1.07)	0.522	1.03 (0.97-1.10)	0.261
Baseline heavy housework (hours/week)	0.94 (0.85-1.04)	0.220	1.02 (0.95-1.09)	0.605
Changes in walking (hours/week)	0.99 (0.96-1.01)	0.229	0.98 (0.93-1.03)	0.387
Baseline walking (hours/week)	0.99 (0.96-1.02)	0.472	0.98 (0.94-1.02)	0.300
Changes in sport (hours/week)	0.93 (0.88-0.98)	0.011*	0.97 (0.92-1.01)	0.167
Baseline sport (hours/week)	0.88 (0.82-0.94)	<0.001*	0.90 (0.85-0.97)	0.004*

^a Adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, socioeconomic status (housing type), education, nutritional risk, smoking, alcohol, marital status and baseline prefrailty/frailty status
^b Adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, socioeconomic status (housing type), education, nutritional risk, smoking, alcohol, marital status
OR Odds Ratio, HR Hazard Ratio, CI Confidence Interval, LAPAQ Longitudinal Ageing Study Amsterdam Physical Activity Questionnaire
*Statistically significant at p<0.05

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