Table 2.
Association between frailty and adverse outcomes—hospitalised in last 12 months, any fall in past 2 years and poor cognition
| Outcome | 45–59 years old adults | 60+ adults | ||||||
| All | Non-frail | Frail | Adjusted* OR (95% CI) | All | Non-frail | Frail | Adjusted* OR (95% CI) | |
| Hospitalised in last 12 months | ||||||||
| No | 28 440 (94%) | 24 658 (95%) | 3782 (89%) | – | 24 631 (92%) | 15 364 (94%) | 9267 (89%) | – |
| Yes | 1681 (5.6%) | 1215 (4.7%) | 466 (11%) | 2.35 (2.09 to 2.66) | 2038 (7.6%) | 911 (5.6%) | 1127 (11%) | 2.19 (1.98 to 2.42) |
| Missing | 447 | 393 | 54 | 412 | 226 | 186 | ||
| Any fall in past 2 years | ||||||||
| No | 25 651 (84%) | 22 605 (86%) | 3046 (71%) | – | 21 712 (80%) | 14 005 (85%) | 7707 (73%) | – |
| Yes | 4914 (16%) | 3658 (14%) | 1256 (29%) | 2.17 (2.01 to 2.36) | 5365 (20%) | 2495 (15%) | 2870 (27%) | 1.9 (1.77 to 2.03) |
| Missing | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Poor cognition† | ||||||||
| No | 22 017 (93%) | 19 343 (93%) | 2674 (88%) | – | 15 521 (85%) | 10 540 (88%) | 4981 (78%) | – |
| Yes | 1727 (7.3%) | 1362 (6.6%) | 365 (12%) | 1.33 (1.16 to 1.53) | 2750 (15%) | 1375 (12%) | 1375 (22%) | 1.39 (1.26 to 1.54) |
| Missing | 6824 | 5561 | 1263 | 8810 | 4586 | 4224 | ||
*Adjusted for participants’ sex, age, rural place of residence, education, consumption expenditure, living arrangement, work status, food constraint, tobacco use, alcohol use, religion, caste and state.
†Poor cognition was defined as a cognition score below the 10th percentile, which was 18.