Table 3.

Number and Percent of Frailty Transitions and Deaths by Baseline Cognitive Status for Each Follow-up Interval Among NonFrail Older Mexican Americans. (N = 942 participants who were nonfrail at baseline in 1995/1996)

	1995/1996–1998/1999		1998/1999–2000/2001		2000/2001–2004/2005
	Second Wave		Third Wave		Fourth Wave
	MMSE < 21	MMSE ≥ 21	MMSE < 21	MMSE ≥ 21	MMSE < 21	MMSE ≥ 21
Nonfrail*	N = 159	N = 783	N = 82	N = 387	N = 73	N = 329
Nonfrail, n (%)	85 (53.5)	422 (53.9)	56 (68.3)	238 (61.5)	51 (60.0)	247 (75.1)
Prefrail, n (%)	34 (21.4)	216 (27.6)	12 (14.6)	96 (24.8)	9 (12.3)	33 (1 0.0)
Frail, n (%)	22 (13.8)	91 (11.6)	9 (11.0)	38 (9.8)	5 (6.8)	24 (7.3)
Deaths, n (%)	18 (11.3)	54 (6.9)	5 (6.1)	15 (3.9)	8 (10.9)	25 (7.6)

Note: *Participants at beginning of each period were not frail.