Table 4.
Risk of Nursing Home Admission and Mortality Over 8.5 Years in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Study of Aging (n = 978)
| Exposure | Nursing Home Admission | Mortality | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Crude) | (Adjusted)† | (Crude) | (Adjusted)† | |||
| HR | HR | CI | HR | HR | CI | |
| Nutritional risk | ||||||
| Low | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Moderate | 1.97* | 1.16 | 0.61–2.19 | 2.12*** | 1.54** | 1.19–1.99 |
| High | 4.04*** | 1.46 | 0.72–2.95 | 2.24*** | 1.24 | 0.90–1.70 |
| BMI | ||||||
| ≤18.5^ | 0.66 | 0.62 | 0.08–4.67 | 1.85* | 1.57 | 0.88–2.82 |
| >18.5, ≤25 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| >25, <30^ | 0.71 | 1.10 | 0.08–4.66 | 0.85 | 0.94 | 0.73–1.21 |
| >30, <35^ | 0.80 | 1.04 | 0.51–2.10 | 0.78 | 0.80 | 0.58–1.09 |
| ≥35^ | 0.93 | 1.13 | 0.48–2.65 | 0.80 | 0.73 | 0.49–1.09 |
Notes: HR = hazard ratio; CI = confidence interval.
*p < .05, **p < .01, ***p < .001.
†Adjusted for independent life-space, marital status, social support, comorbidity score, age, rural versus urban, race, gender, and education.