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Published in final edited form as: Gerontology. 2016 Dec 10;63(4):299–307. doi: 10.1159/000453593

TABLE 3.

Comorbidity measures for frailty groups defined by the UEF test. The asterisk symbol represents a significant between-group difference.

COMORBIDITIES	NON-FRAIL N = 48	FRAIL N = 53	P-VALUE ^†
Hypertension	60%	92%	<0.001*
Hyperlipidemia	43%	56%	0.056
Coronary artery disease	25%	46%	0.001*
Stroke	4%	13%	0.018*
Dementia	23%	45%	<0.001*
Cirrhosis	<1%	1%	0.436
Chronic renal failure	8%	7%	0.546
Chronic obstructive disease	3%	18%	<0.001*