Table 4.

Odds ratio of Number of Hormonal Deficiencies* Predicting Frailty Status

	Age adjusted odds ratio		Multivariate adjusted odds ratio†
Number	Prefrail vs nonfrail	Frail vs nonfrail	Prefrail vs nonfrail	Frail vs nonfrail
0	1	1	1	1
1	1.55 (0.98–2.45)	1.18 (0.53–2.64)	1.71 (1.03–2.85)	1.15 (0.49–2.68)
2 or 3	1.61 (0.93–2.79)	2.73 (1.28–5.86)	2.25 (1.12–4.53)	2.79 (1.06–7.32)

Notes: *For each hormone, deficiency was defined as the bottom quartile.

^†Adjusted for age, race, education, smoking status, body mass index, number of diseases, corticosteroid use, and estrogen use (n = 485 with complete data on covariates).