Table 1.

Baseline Characteristics According to Frailty Status in a Population‐Based Sample of British Men Aged 71 to 92 (N = 1,622)

Characteristic	Nonfrail, n = 1,319	Frail, n = 303	P‐Value
Age, mean ± standard deviation	77.9 ± 4.3	80.5 ± 5.4	<.001
History of diabetes or cardiovascular disease, n (%)	518 (39)	180 (59)	<.001
Social class, n (%)
Nonmanual	703 (55)	139 (48)	.03
Manual	581 (45)	152 (52)
Smoking, n (%)
Never	521 (40)	94 (31)	.03
Long‐term exsmoker (gave up before 1983)	573 (43)	148 (49)
Recent exsmoker	178 (14)	52 (17)
Current smoker	46 (3)	9 (3)
Number of prescribed medications with xerostomia (dry mouth) as a side effect, n (%)
0	774 (59)	141 (47)	<.001
1	420 (32)	115 (38)
≥2	125 (9)	47 (16)