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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2016 Jan;64(1):132–137. doi: 10.1111/jgs.13821

Table 3.

Risk for Mortality According to Frailty Status at Baseline for all participants and stratified by sex

All participants Stratified analyses by Sex

N=2355, 500 events Women n=1173, 208 events Men n=1182, 292 events Interaction
HR (95% CI)a p-value HR (95% CI) p-value HR (95% CI) p-value p-valueb
Frailty Indexc 1.12 (1.10, 1.15) <0.001 1.16 (1.12, 1.20) <0.001 1.10 (1.07, 1.13) <0.001 0.037
Frailty Subgroup <0.001c <0.001c <0.001c 0.063c
  Fit 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference)
  At Risk 1.47 (1.03, 2.10) 0.035 1.76 (0.98, 3.16) 0.057 1.27 (0.81, 1.99) 0.30
  Frail 2.65 (1.86, 3.78) <0.001 4.18 (2.36, 7.37) <0.001 1.87 (1.19, 2.94) 0.007
  Frailest 3.91 (2.69, 5.68) <0.001 5.26 (2.88, 9.61) <0.001 3.15 (1.98, 5.02) <0.001
a

All models are adjusted for age (as the time variable), education (continuous), and sex where applicable.

b

Interaction p values for frailty* sex derived from Cox proportional hazards models.

c

Estimates or risk per 1 point increase in the continuous Frailty Index (0–36).

c

P-value for trend.