Table 1.
Characteristics of the participants
| Frailty Phenotype | FTS5 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | Robust Fried | Prefrail Fried | Frail Fried | P‐value | No frail | Frail | P‐value | |
| N (%) | 1,538 | 1,058 (68.79) | 436 (28.35) | 44 (2.86) | 1,377 (89.53) | 161 (10.47) | ||
| Age (SD) | 74.73 (5.73) | 73.55 (5.19) | 76.99 (6.01) | 80.70 (4.95) | <0.001 | 74.18 (5.48) | 79.42 (5.74) | <0.001 |
| Gender, male (%) | 700 (45.51) | 477 (45.09) | 200 (45.87) | 23 (52.27) | 0.78 | 661 (48.00) | 39 (24.22) | <0.001 |
| Charlson index (SD) | 1.18 (1.59) | 1.01 (1.42) | 1.52 (1.83) | 1.89 (2.27) | <0.001 | 1.13 (1.55) | 1.65 (1.86) | <0.001 |
| Sarcopenia (%) | 348 (22.62) | 159 (15.02) | 164 (37.61) | 25 (56.82) | <0.001 | 223 (16.19) | 125 (77.64) | <0.001 |
| Cognitive impairment or dementia (%) | 241 (15.98) | 132 (12.67) | 89 (20.99) | 20 (47.62) | <0.001 | 184 (13.58) | 57 (37.25) | <0.001 |
| At‐risk of malnutrition and malnourished (%) | 368 (24.93) | 154 (15.13) | 182 (43.75) | 32 (76.19) | <0.001 | 282 (21.36) | 86 (55.13) | <0.001 |
Data are expressed as mean (SD) and frequency (%). In bold: P‐value < 0.05. N, number of the sample; FTS5, Frailty Trait Scale 5; SD, standard deviation.