Table 2.

Association between frailty and the risk of all-cause mortality, nursing home admission, and needing home care. Note: Three models are reported for each outcome, one for each frailty measure: sum of all deficits; sum of deficits, per deficit type; and frailty category. Models for nursing home admission and needing home care accounted the competing risk of death. Reference groups were the following: woman, for sex; non-drinker, for alcohol consumption; non-smoker for smoking status; least deprived, for deprivation index; and fit, for frailty. In (*) both values were < 1, but due to rounding they appear as 0.99, 1. p-values are not reported as all of them were <0.01, except for (**), where $p$-value = 0.66, and (***), where $p$-value = 0.86. HR: Hazard Ratio, CI: Confidence Interval, AIC: Akaike’s Information Criterion.

Variable	Level	Mortality						Nursing home admission						Need for home care
		Deficit count		Deficit count, per deficit type		Frailty category		Deficit count		Deficit count, per deficit type		Frailty category		Deficit count		Deficit count, per deficit type		Frailty category
		HR	95% CI	HR	95% CI	HR	95% CI	HR	95% CI	HR	95% CI	HR	95% CI	HR	95% CI	HR	95% CI	HR	95% CI
Deficit count (total)	-	1.03	1.03, 1.03	-	-	-	-	1.4	1.40, 1.40	-	-	-	-	1.5	1.50, 1.50	-	-	-	-
Deficit count (diseases)	-	-	-	1.07	1.06, 1.07	-	-	-	-	1.1	1.1, 1.1	-	-	-	-	0.99	0.99, 1 (*)	-	-
Deficit count (SSLD)	-	-	-	0.93	0.93, 0.94	-	-	-	-	1.9	1.90, 1.90	-	-	-	-	3.4	3.4, 3.4	-	-
Frailty	Mild	-	-	-	-	1.25	1.24, 1.27	-	-	-	-	9.7	9.68, 9.72	-	-	-	-	21	20.98, 21.02
	Moderate	-	-	-	-	1.44	1.42, 1.46	-	-	-	-	40	39.98, 40.02	-	-	-	-	160	159.98, 160.02
	Severe	-	-	-	-	1.38	1.36, 1.41	-	-	-	-	87	86.98, 87.02	-	-	-	-	620	619.98, 620.02
Sex	Man	1.69	1.68, 1.70	1.7	1.69, 1.71	1.69	1.68, 1.70	0.92	0.91, 0.93	0.89	0.88, 0.90	0.91	0.90, 0.92	1.2	1.19, 1.21	0.97	0.96, 0.98	1.2	1.19, 1.21
Age	-	1.1	1.10, 1.10	1.1	1.10, 1.10	1.1	1.10, 1.10	1.1	1.10, 1.10	1.1	1.10, 1.10	1.1	1.10, 1.10	1.1	1.10, 1.10	1	1.10, 1.10	1.1	1.10, 1.10
Deprivation index	2	1.11	1.10, 1.12	1.11	1.10, 1.12	1.11	1.10, 1.12	0.75	0.74, 0.76	0.74	0.73, 0.75	0.74	0.73, 0.75	1.1	1.09, 1.11	1.1	1.09, 1.11	1.1	1.09, 1.11
	3	1.19	1.17, 1.20	1.18	1.17, 1.19	1.18	1.17, 1.20	0.75	0.74, 0.76	0.75	0.74. 0.76	0.74	0.73, 0.75	1.2	1.19, 1.21	1.2	1.19, 1.21	1.1	1.09, 1.11
	4	1.24	1.22, 1.25	1.23	1.22, 1.25	1.24	1.22, 1.25	0.59	0.58, 0.60	0.6	0.59, 0.61	0.59	0.58, 0.60	1.1	1.09, 1.11	1.2	1.19, 1.21	1.1	1.09, 1.11
	5 (More deprived)	1.32	1.30, 1.34	1.31	1.29, 1.34	1.32	1.29, 1.34	0.6	0.58, 0.62	0.6	0.58, 0.62	0.6	0.58, 0.62	1.2	1.19, 1.21	1.2	1.19, 1.21	1.2	1.19, 1.21
Alcohol consumption	Low-risk drinker	0.99	0.98, 1	0.98	0.98, 0.99	0.99	0.98, 1	1.1	1.09, 1.11	1.1	1.09, 1.11	1	0.99, 1	0.69	0.68, 0.70	0.78	0.77, 0.79	0.68	0.67, 0.69
	High-risk drinker	1.05	1.02, 1.09	1.05	1.01, 1.08	1.05	1.02, 1.09	1.3	1.26, 1.34	1.3	1.26, 1.34	1.3	1.26, 1.33	0.82	0.79, 0.85	0.86	0.83, 0.89	0.81	0.78, 0.84
Smoking status	Ex-smoker	1.27	1.26, 1.28	1.27	1.26, 1.28	1.27	1.26, 1.28	0.91	0.90, 0.92	0.91	0.90, 0.92	0.94	0.93, 0.95	0.97	0.96, 0.98	1	0.99, 1	1	0.99, 1.01
	Smoker	1.51	1.50, 1.53	1.52	1.50, 1.54	1.52	1.50, 1.53	1.3	1.28, 1.32	1.2	1.18, 1.22	1.3	1.28, 1.32	1	0.99, 1	0.94	0.93, 0.95	1.1	1.09, 1.11
Nursing home admission	Yes	2.71	2.68, 2.73	2.86	2.84, 2.89	2.71	2.69, 2.73	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Need for home care	Yes	2.44	2.42, 2.46	2.9	2.87, 2.93	2.49	2.47, 2.51	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
AIC		8 503 746		8 499 722		8 502 620		8 884 381		8 885 905		8 885 551		9 569 799		9 309 981		9 584 591