Table 3.
Final model for significant baseline threats to aging well over 12 years for men and women and the total samplea,b.
| Variable | Men not aging well |
Women not aging well |
Total not aging well |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RR (95% CI) | p | RR (95% CI) | p | RR (95% CI) | p | |
| SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC | ||||||
| Age in years | 1.08 (1.06–1.10) | <0.001 | ||||
| HEALTH | ||||||
| Tally of 33 medical conditions | 1.15 (1.09–1.21) | <0.001 | ||||
| Urinary incontinence | 1.35 (1.06–1.71) | 0.014 | ||||
| LIFESTYLE | ||||||
| Low strain | 0.78 (0.68–0.89) | <0.001 | ||||
| Perceived social activity adequacy | 0.68 (0.51–0.91) | 0.008 | ||||
| Perceived social support | 0.75 (0.66–0.86) | <0.001 | ||||
| Smoking: ex-smoker-current smokerc | 0.61 (0.42–0.89) | 0.010 | ||||
| Nutrition score | 0.95 (0.92–0.99) | 0.017 | ||||
| BMI: normal-under-weightc | 0.70 (0.49–1.00) | 0.048d | 0.48 (0.29–0.79) | 0.004 | ||
| Total physical activity | 0.97 (0.95–0.99) | 0.008 | ||||
an = 637 aging well at baseline.
b Blank cells indicate that the baseline predictor failed the bivariate criterion (p > 0.10), lost significance in the multivariate model (p > 0.05) or was excluded on conceptual grounds.
c Categories compared in the analysis.
d Sensitivity analyses suggested that this borderline result for BMI was overall not a significant predictor.