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Published in final edited form as: Aging Clin Exp Res. 2015 Dec 8;28(5):901–908. doi: 10.1007/s40520-015-0497-y

Table 2.

Frailty in participants from the Mexican Health and Aging Study, and its association with death, hospitalization, dependency in basic and instrumental ADL, and new falls during the 2 years in the multivariate analysis, Mexico, 2001-2003

Variable	Death (N = 4729)		Hospitalization (N = 4232)		Need help in at least one BADL (N = 3270)		Need help in at least one IADL (N = 3550)		New falls (N = 2536)
	p	HR (CI 95.0 %)^a	p	OR (CI 95.0 %)^b	p	OR (CI 95.0 %)^c	p	OR (CI 95.0 %)^d	p	OR (CI 95.0 %)^e
Frail	0.005	1.862 (1.205-2.878)	<0.001	1.741 (1.289-2.351)	<0.001	5.295 (3.174-8.831)	<0.001	2.389 (1.633-3.494)	<0.001	2.726 (1.718-4.325)
Prefrail	0.182	1.254 (0.899-1.747)	0.019	1.284 (1.061-1.554)	0.003	1.888 (1.240-2.874)	0.010	1.420 (1.089-1.853)	0.014	1.462 (1.078-1.982)
Robust		1		1		1		1		1

HR hazard ratio, OR odds ratio

Adjusted for age, sex, number of depressive symptoms, cognitive score and help in at least one BADL

Adjusted for age, sex, cognitive score and help BADL

Adjusted for age, sex, number of depressive symptoms, number of chronic diseases, and cognitive score

Adjusted for age, sex, number of chronic diseases, number of depressive symptoms, and cognitive score

Adjusted for age, sex, number of depressive symptoms, cognitive score, and help in BADL