Table 2.
Number and rates of transition in frailty status and mortality according to the presence or absence of sarcopenia
| Fried phenotype | Follow‐up group | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basal frailty state | Basal sarcopenia state | Robust | Prefrail | Frail | P‐value | Death | P‐value | Total |
| From robust | No sarcopenic to (%) | 639 (80.17) | 121 (15.18) | 9 (01.12) | <0.001 | 28 (03.51) | 0.13 | 797 |
| Sarcopenic to (%) | 85 (61.15) | 45 (32.37) | 8 (05.76) | 1 (00.72) | 139 | |||
| From prefrail | No sarcopenic to (%) | 123 (52.56) | 85 (36.32) | 10 (04.27) | <0.001 | 16 (06.84) | 0.13 | 234 |
| Sarcopenic to (%) | 48 (33.80) | 59 (41.55) | 18 (12.68) | 17 (11.97) | 142 | |||
| From frail | No sarcopenic to (%) | 2 (11.11) | 9 (50.00) | 2 (11.11) | 0.32 | 5 (27.78) | 0.89 | 18 |
| Sarcopenic to (%) | 3 (15.79) | 7 (36.84) | 4 (21.05) | 5 (26.32) | 19 | |||
| FTS5 | Follow‐up group | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basal frailty state | Basal sarcopenia state | No frail | Frail | P‐value | Death | P‐value | Total |
| From no frail | No sarcopenic | 939 (91.25) | 46 (04.47) | <0.001 | 44 (04.28) | 0.53 | 1,029 |
| Sarcopenic | 137 (70.98) | 50 (25.91) | 6 (03.11) | 193 | |||
| From frail | No sarcopenic | 8 (27.59) | 14 (48.28) | 1.00 | 7 (24.14) | 0.63 | 29 |
| Sarcopenic | 32 (30.19) | 56 (52.83) | 18 (16.98) | 106 | |||
Data are shown as number and percentage. In bold: p‐value <0.05. Percentage adds up to 100 horizontally. FTS5: Frailty Trait Scale 5.