Table 1.

Characteristics of weighted analytic sample by fall risk category

	Total	Low Risk	Moderate Risk	High Risk
	100%	51.8%	38.4%	9.9%
Characteristics	% or Mean (SE)
Age, yrs
65–69	28.4	33.7	24.9	14.5
70–74	25.2	28.6	22.4	18.1
75–79	19.3	18.2	20.1	18.5
80–84	14.6	11.7	16.6	22.1
85–89	8.6	5.7	10.3	17.1
90+	3.9	2.0	5.0	9.7
Female	56.4	50.0	62.6	65.6
Race and Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White	81.1	81.1	81.4	80.2
Non-Hispanic Black	8.4	8.6	8.1	8.2
Other	3.6	4.2	3.1	2.4
Hispanic	7.0	6.1	7.5	9.3
Completed college degree	29.3	33.1	27.3	17.6
Lives alone	28.7	25.1	32.5	32.9
Smoker
Never	47.4	46.8	48.1	47.5
Former	44.0	44.4	43.2	45.2
Current	8.6	8.8	8.7	7.3
BMI (kg/m2), mean (SE)	27.6 (0.1)	27.3 (0.1)	28.1 (0.1)	27.5 (0.3)
Disability total, mean (SE)	3.8 (0.1)	2.5 (0.1)	4.4 (0.1)	8.2 (0.2)
Comorbidities, mean (SE)	2.5 (0.1)	2.0 (0.1)	2.8 (0.1)	3.7 (0.1)
Heart Disease	17.5	13.0	19.9	31.6
Hypertension	64.0	59.0	68.5	73.0
Arthritis	53.6	42.2	63.9	73.2
Osteoporosis	21.1	14.9	25.2	37.9
Diabetes	23.9	19.1	26.8	37.8
Lung Disease	15.5	11.4	18.1	27.2
Stroke	10.0	6.0	12.2	22.4
Dementia	4.1	1.4	5.1	14.6
Cancer	26.0	24.1	27.8	29.1
Incident falls
0 falls reported	47.2	61.9	33.6	19.2
1 fall reported	23.4	22.2	27.2	13.5
2+ falls reported	29.5	16.0	39.1	67.3

Note: All estimates incorporate NHATS sampling and weighting elements applied to the analytic sample (n=7,392)