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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Respir Med. 2017 Aug 10;131:70–76. doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2017.08.010

Table 3.

Adjusted associations between FFP and exercise performance.

Outcome Fried Frailty Phenotype
p for trend Decrement in outcome per 1 point increment in FFP score p-value
Not frail
(score 0–1)
Intermediate
(score 2–3)
Frail
(score 4)
Watts Ref (0) −26.0
(−37.7 to −14.2)
−38.1
(−57.5 to −18.7)
<0.001 −10.7
(−15.6 to −5.8)
<0.001
V˙O2 peak Ref (0) −5.5
(−8.1 to −2.9)
−8.4
(−13.7 to −3.1)
<0.001 −2.0
(−3.1 to −0.9)
0.001
Breathing Reserve % Ref (0) −2.9
(−12.3 to 6.4)
−1.0
(−11.7 to 13.8)
0.87 −1.0
(−4.6 to 2.5)
0.56
V˙E, L/min Ref (0) −10.3
(−18.0 to −2.6)
−12.2
(−2.7 to 27.2)
0.10 −4.6
(−7.7 to −1.5)
0.004
Heart rate reserve % Ref (0) −11.1
(−5.1 to −17.16)
−10.3
(−0.8 to −19.9)
0.03 −3.0
(−.4 to −5.6)
0.02

Models are adjusted for age, gender, diagnosis, and lung allocation score.