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. 2024 Mar 27;82:44. doi: 10.1186/s13690-024-01275-8

Table 1.

Characteristics of study participants by frailty status

Characteristics Total population (n = 5370) Non-frailty
(n = 3852)
Frailty
(n = 1518)
P-value
Age, n(%) < 0.001
 < 65 3110 (57.91%) 2353 (61.09%) 757 (49.87%)
 ≥ 65 2260 (42.09%) 1499 (38.91%) 761 (50.13%)
Gender, n(%) < 0.001
 Male 2717 (50.60%) 2032 (52.75%) 685 (45.13%)
 Female 2653 (49.40%) 1820 (47.25%) 833(54.87%)
Race/ethnicity, n(%) < 0.001
 Mexican American 1132 (21.08%) 913 (23.70%) 219 (14.43%)
 Other Hispanic 546 (10.17%) 361 (9.37%) 185 (12.19%)
 Non-Hispanic White 1838 (34.23%) 1280 (33.23%) 558 (36.76%)
 Non-Hispanic Black 1466 (27.30%) 1063 (27.60%) 403 (26.55%)
 Other race including Multi-Racial 388 (7.23%) 235 (6.10%) 153 (10.08%)
Family income-poverty ratio, n (%) < 0.001
 <1.3 917 (17.08%) 593 (13.31%) 474 (26.50%)
 1.3–2.4 2337 (43.52%) 1836 (41.22%) 882 (49.33%)
 ≥2.4 2116 (39.40%) 2025 (45.46%) 433 (24.20%)
Body mass index, n(%) 29.26 ± 6.40 28.56 ± 5.74 31.02 ± 7.54 < 0.001
Higher education, n (%) < 0.001
 No 2801 (52.16%) 1859 (48.26%) 942 (62.06%)
 Yes 2569 (47.84%) 1993 (51.74%) 576 (37.94%)
Smoking status, n (%) < 0.001
 Never 2610 (48.60%) 1978 (51.35%) 632 (41.63%)
 Ever 1985 (36.96%) 1366 (35.46%) 619 (40.78%)
 Now 775 (14.43%) 508 (13.19%) 267 (17.59%)
Alcohol intake, n (%) 0.006
 No 3682 (68.57%) 2685 (69.70%) 997 (65.68%)
 Yes 1688 (31.34%) 1167 (30.30%) 521 (34.32%)
Hypertension, n(%) 0.003
 No 3819 (71.12%) 2784 (72.27%) 1035 (68.18%)
 Yes 1551 (28.88%) 1068 (27.73%) 483 (31.82%)
Diabetes, n(%) < 0.001
 Yes 4204 (78.29%) 3317 (86.11%) 887 (58.43%)
 No 991 (18.45%) 427 (11.09%) 564 (37.15%)
 Borderline 175 (3.26%) 108 (2.80%) 67 (4.41%)
Physical Activity, n(%) < 0.001
 Very Light Physical Activity 1709 (31.82%) 999 (25.93%) 710 (46.77%)
 Light Physical Activity 1330 (24.77%) 955 (24.79%) 375 (24.70%)
 Medium Physical Activity 668 (12.44%) 530 (13.76%) 138 (9.09%)
 High Physical Activity 1663 (30.97%) 1368 (35.51%) 295 (19.43%)
Serum cotinine (ng/mL), mean ± SD 54.19 ± 134.16 48.68 ± 126.99 65.70 ± 145.54 < 0.001
eGFR(mL/min/m), n(%) < 0.001
 ≥ 90 1592 (29.79%) 1235 (32.22%) 357 (23.63%)
 60–90 2835 (52.79%) 2109 (54.75%) 726 (47.83%)
 < 60 943 (17.65%) 508 (13.25%) 435 (28.79%)

VLPA: Very Light Physical Activity (< 150 MET-min/week); LPA: Light Physical Activity (150–960 MET-min/week); MPA: Medium Physical Activity (961–1800 MET-min/week); HPA: High Physical Activity (> 1800 MET-min/week); eGFR: estimated glomerular filtration rate