Table 2.

Association of weather and season variables with likelihood and location of falls and injurious falls (N = 240) ¹.

	Likelihood of Falling		Likelihood a Fall Is Injurious vs. Non-Injurious		Likelihood of Fall Occurring Outdoors vs. Indoors		Likelihood of Injurious Fall Occurring Outdoors vs. Indoors
Weather Variable	OR (95% CI)	p	OR (95% CI)	p	OR (95% CI)	p	OR (95% CI)	p
Temperature
Average daily temperature per 10 °C increment	0.92 (0.84, 1.02)	0.12	1.24 (1.01, 1.53)	0.04	1.03 (0.84, 1.26)	0.76	1.46 (1.03, 2.07)	0.03
Average daily temperature > 10 °C vs. ≤10 °C	0.84 (0.69, 1.02)	0.09	1.42 (0.92, 2.18)	0.11	1.02 (0.67, 1.54)	0.94	1.91 (0.98, 3.69)	0.06
Precipitation
Daily precipitation (mm)	1.05 (0.82, 1.35)	0.70	1.28 (0.68, 2.41)	0.44	0.56 (0.29, 1.09)	0.09	0.48 (0.17, 1.38)	0.18
Presence of precipitation vs. no precipitation	1.12 (0.92, 1.37)	0.27	0.96 (0.62, 1.47)	0.84	0.74 (0.48, 1.13)	0.16	1.24 (0.64, 2.40)	0.52
Season
Spring vs. Winter	0.87 (0.65, 1.15)	0.33	0.61 (0.33, 1.13)	0.12	0.57 (0.31, 1.04)	0.07	1.53 (0.56, 4.16)	0.41
Summer vs. Winter	0.98 (0.74, 1.29)	0.90	1.55 (0.86, 2.77)	0.14	1.15 (0.64, 2.06)	0.65	2.69 (1.12, 6.50)	0.03
Autumn vs. Winter	1.15 (0.88, 1.51)	0.31	1.11 (0.62, 1.98)	0.73	0.79 (0.44, 1.41)	0.43	1.11 (0.46, 2.66)	0.82

¹ Controlled for age, race, sex, IVF sensitivity, number of comorbidities, and presence of polypharmacy. OR = odds ratio.