. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 24.

Published in final edited form as: J Aging Health. 2017 Apr 20;30(6):987–1008. doi: 10.1177/0898264317704096

Table 3:

Predictors of Falling in the past 6 months: Logistic regression

	SET 1		SET 2
	(With frailty variable)		(Without frailty variable)
	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4
N	19,023	19,023	20,654	20,654
VARIABLES	OR	OR	OR	OR
Sociodemographic background
Age	1.024^***	1.023^***	1.023^***	1.022^***
Female	1.290^***	1.274^***	1.249^***	1.235^***
Married/Partnered	0.765^***	0.764^***	0.789^***	0.788^***
Secondary education^A	1.158^*	1.159^*	1.094	1.095
Post-secondary education^A	1.283^**	1.293^**	1.259^**	1.268^**
Mental health
Cognition score.	0.862^**	0.862^**	0.881^**	0.882^**
Depressive symptoms	1.096^***	1.095^***	1.097^***	1.096^***
Physical health
BMI- underweight^A	0.907	0.888	0.937	0.924
BMI- overweight^A	0.898	0.899	0.874^*	0.874^*
BMI- obese^A	0.862	0.862^*	0.870^*	0.870^*
Poor eyesight	1.432^***	1.434^***	1.401^***	1.407^***
Poor hearing	1.131	1.126	1.084	1.082
Medications	1.094^***	1.092^***	1.091^***	1.089^***
Frailty^A	1.213^*	1.210^*
Morbidity
AD, dementia, senility	1.002	0.997	0.864	0.853
Cataracts	1.159^*	1.158^*	1.168^*	1.167^*
Diabetes	1.026	1.027	1.031	1.031
Heart attack	1.055	1.056	1.044	1.044
Hip or femoral fracture	1.845^***	1.847^***	1.732^***	1.756^***
Osteoarthritis/other rheumatism	1.202^**	1.195^**	1.169^**	1.162^*
Parkinson	1.622^*	1.607^*	1.751^***	1.734^***
Rheumatoid arthritis	1.151	1.155	1.137	1.143
Mobility limitation	1.159^***	1.184^***	1.171^***	1.195^***
Falls
Fell in W4^A	2.400^***	2.399^***	2.280^***	2.294^***
FOF (W4)^A	1.149	1.664^***	1.172^*	1.711^***
FOF (W4) × activity reduction (W5)		0.918^***		0.921^***

Pseudo R-squared	0.144	0.145	0.150	0.151

Note: Adjusted for county (results available on request).

Reference categories: Education - Primary; BMI - Normal; Frailty - Non-frail; Falls - Did not fall/ Was not afraid of falling.

p<0.05,

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p<0.01,

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p<0.001