Table 3.
Characteristics associated with healthy aging status
| Healthy Agersa n=887 |
Non-Healthy Agersa n=1236 |
p-value† | Multivariate model± | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR (95%CI) | p-value | ||||
| Age, years | 74.0 (3.8) | 75.5 (4.7) | < .0001 | 0.95 (0.93,0.98) | .0001 |
| Women [%] | 61.3% | 61.6% | 0.88 | 1.36 (1.03,1.81) | 0.0319 |
| Education, years | 13.4 (3.5) | 12.1 (4.7) | < .0001 | 1.02 (0.99,1.05) | 0.233 |
| Prior fall [%] | 38.9% | 42.6% | 0.03 | 0.87 (0.72,1.07) | 0.1813 |
| BMI, Kg/m2 | 25.3 (3.8) | 27.1 (4.4) | < .0001 | 0.94 (0.91,0.96) | < .0001 |
| Gait speed, m/s | |||||
| Men | 1.20 (0.20) | 1.12 (0.23) | < .0001 | 4.70 (2.68,8.25) | < .0001 |
| Women | 1.18 (0.20) | 1.04 (0.24) | < .0001 | ||
| Grip strength, KPa | |||||
| Men | 79.0 (15.7) | 73.4 (17.5) | < .0001 | 1.01 (1.00,1.01) | 0.2655 |
| Women | 53.2 (10.5) | 48.9 (12.3) | < .0001 | ||
| Sit-to-stand, s | |||||
| Men | 10.0 (2.9) | 12.1 (4.5) | < .0001 | 0.90 (0.87,0.93) | < .0001 |
| Women | 10.3 (2.7) | 13.1 (4.9) | < .0001 | ||
aValues are means and SE unless noted. † p-values are from T-tests or X2 tests
±Variables in the multivariate model are adjusted for each other and for center