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Table 2 Frailty predictability and frailty-risk factor edge weights/stability

From: Leveraging network analysis to determine sex differences in factors associated with frailty among older adults living alone

 

Older males (n = 232)

Older females (n = 805)

Overall frailty predictability

0.49

0.38

 

Frailty-risk factor edge weights/stability

Surviving child

X

X

Educational level

X

X

Actual monthly cost of living

X

X

Social activity

X

X

Presence of complex chronic disease

0.27 (95.0%)

0.21 (100.0%)

Self-efficacy

-0.23 (100.0%)

-0.24 (100.0%)

Functional disabilities

X

0.14 (74.0%)

Number of falls per year

0.12 (73.0%)

X

Nutritional status

-0.30 (100.0%)

-0.27 (100.0%)

Alcohol consumption

X

X

Smoking

X

X

Physical activity

X

X

Loneliness

0.08 (42.0%)

0.11 (100.0%)

Suicidal ideation

0.15 (82.0%)

X

Decreased sleep quality

0.12 (47.0%)

0.07 (76.0%)

Cognitive function

X

X

Social support

X

X

  1. X = no edge between frailty and risk factors, % of 100 bootstraps for which the edge weight was non-zero in parentheses