Mortality risk factors in community-dwelling, subjectively healthy, Swiss older adults: update after 8-years follow-up

Table 3 Cox proportional hazard regression model in males (AIC = 1210.9)

	HR	p-value	95% C.I.
Overweight (↑)	2.05	0.039	1.04	-	4.06
Age in overweight subjects	1.12	< 0.001	1.08	-	1.16
Age in normal weight subjects	1.17	< 0.001	1.12	-	1.22
Albumin	0.92	0.022	0.86	-	0.99
Smoking	1.59	0.133	0.87	-	2.95
Hypertension (↓)	1.29	0.229	0.85	-	1.95
Diabetes	2.10	0.013	1.17	-	3.79
Osteoporosis	11.42	0.001	2.59	-	50.31
Renal disease (↑)	0.78	0.747	0.18	-	3.40
History of cancer	7.24	< 0.001	3.80	-	13.79

↑ or ↓: variables violating the proportional hazard assumption based on the Akaike information criterion, with the HR increasing (↑) or decreasing (↓) over time. The hazard ratios reported for these variables refer to a follow-up time of 4 years

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