Table 2.

Prevalence of Fried phenotype frailty components and the total number of frailty components in the overall sample and by sex

	Total (%)	Men (%)	Women (%)
Fried’s phenotype of frailty component
Shrinking (low BMI)	18.2	20.2	16.6
Self-reported exhaustion	37.5	31.9	41.7
Weakness (low grip strength)	23.6	19.6	26.6
Slowness (low gait speed)	19.6	18.7	20.3
Low physical activity	19.2	17.4	20.5
Total no of frailty components
0	36.2	41.3	32.3
1	30.8	29.7	31.6
2	17.8	14.7	20.2
3	10.5	10.4	10.6
4	4.2	3.0	5.0
5	0.5	0.8	0.3

BMI, body mass index.