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. 2022 Jul 1;34(10):2557–2565. doi: 10.1007/s40520-022-02173-1

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics

Variable Total Johns Hopkins
Frailty (No) Frailty (Yes) P-Value
N = 11,481,391 N = 11,105,153 N = 376,238
Age—Mean ± SD 48.98 ± 17.66 48.29 ± 17.24

69.55 ± 

17.68

 < 0.001
Age—Median (IQR) 48 (34–62) 48 (34–61) 73 (59–83)  < 0.001
Sex—female 5,860,456 (51.0%) 5,649,930 (50.9%) 210,526 (56.0%)  < 0.001
Low-income neighborhood* 4,621,197 (40.2%) 4,444,729 (40.0%) 176,468 (46.9%)  < 0.001
Rural residence 1,159,990 (10.1%) 1,116,070 (10.1%) 43,920 (11.7%)  < 0.001
Dependency quintile
 Missing 103,354 (0.9%) 99,145 (0.9%) 4,209 (1.1%)  < 0.001
 1 (lowest) 2,977,367 (25.9%) 2,918,230 (26.3%) 59,137 (15.7%)
 2 2,313,886 (20.2%) 2,251,327 (20.3%) 62,559 (16.6%)
 3 2,018,602 (17.6%) 1,955,697 (17.6%) 62,905 (16.7%)
 4 1,952,523 (17.0%) 1,880,807 (16.9%) 71,716 (19.1%)
 5 (highest) 2,115,659 (18.4%) 1,999,947 (18.0%) 115,712 (30.8%)
Material deprivation quintile
 Missing 103,354 (0.9%) 99,145 (0.9%) 4,209 (1.1%)  < 0.001
 1 (lowest) 2,570,956 (22.4%) 2,499,595 (22.5%) 71,361 (19.0%)
 2 2,364,542 (20.6%) 2,293,489 (20.7%) 71,053 (18.9%)
 3 2,174,055 (18.9%) 2,104,350 (18.9%) 69,705 (18.5%)
 4 2,118,834 (18.5%) 2,044,215 (18.4%) 74,619 (19.8%)
 5 (highest) 2,149,650 (18.7%) 2,064,359 (18.6%) 85,291 (22.7%)
Ethnic concentration quintile
 Missing 103,354 (0.9%) 99,145 (0.9%) 4,209 (1.1%)  < 0.001
 1 (lowest) 1,807,688 (15.7%) 1,730,802 (15.6%) 76,886 (20.4%)
 2 1,884,975 (16.4%) 1,812,303 (16.3%) 72,672 (19.3%)
 3 2,034,455 (17.7%) 1,964,545 (17.7%) 69,910 (18.6%)
 4 2,408,304 (21.0%) 2,336,338 (21.0%) 71,966 (19.1%)
 5 (highest) 3,242,615 (28.2%) 3,162,020 (28.5%) 80,595 (21.4%)
Residential instability quintile
 Missing 103,354 (0.9%) 99,145 (0.9%) 4,209 (1.1%)  < 0.001
 1 (lowest) 2,383,434 (20.8%) 2,331,693 (21.0%) 51,741 (13.8%)
 2 2,112,090 (18.4%) 2,051,870 (18.5%) 60,220 (16.0%)
 3 2,048,370 (17.8%) 1,980,924 (17.8%) 67,446 (17.9%)
 4 2,057,339 (17.9%) 1,980,639 (17.8%) 76,700 (20.4%)
 5 (highest) 2,776,804 (24.2%) 2,660,882 (24.0%) 115,922 (30.8%)
Comorbidities
 Diabetes 1,360,392 (11.8%) 1,241,463 (11.2%) 118,929 (31.6%)  < 0.001
 Hyperlipidemia 752,294 (6.6%) 703,679 (6.3%) 48,615 (12.9%)  < 0.001
 Hypertension 2,977,438 (25.9%) 2,730,487 (24.6%) 246,951 (65.6%)  <0 .001
 COPD 876,684 (7.6%) 780,382 (7.0%) 96,302 (25.6%)  < 0.001
 Asthma 1,651,591 (14.4%) 1,581,377 (14.2%) 70,214 (18.7%)  < 0.001
 Stroke 44,598 (0.4%) 26,462 (0.2%) 18,136 (4.8%)  < 0.001
 Heart failure 78,415 (0.7%) 52,572 (0.5%) 25,843 (6.9%)  < 0.001
 Myocardial infarction 91,583 (0.8%) 74,052 (0.7%) 17,531 (4.7%)  < 0.001
 PCI 93,048 (0.8%) 81,612 (0.7%) 11,436 (3.0%)  < 0.001
 CABG 36,189 (0.3%) 28,783 (0.3%) 7,406 (2.0%)  < 0.001
 Ischemic heart disease 253,365 (2.2%) 208,144 (1.9%) 45,221 (12.0%)  < .001
 Valvular heart surgery 19,549 (0.2%) 15,497 (0.1%) 4,052 (1.1%)  < 0.001
 TIA 13,665 (0.1%) 9,078 (0.1%) 4,587 (1.2%)  < 0.001
 Liver disease 38,281 (0.3%) 30,694 (0.3%) 7,587 (2.0%)  < 0.001
 Peripheral vascular disease 28,991 (0.3%) 22,080 (0.2%) 6,911 (1.8%)  < .001
 Atrial fibrillation 256,839 (2.2%) 203,140 (1.8%) 53,699 (14.3%)  < 0.001
 Chronic kidney disease 241,893 (2.1%) 196,137 (1.8%) 45,756 (12.2%)  < 0.001
 Cancer 622,358 (5.4%) 557,390 (5.0%) 64,968 (17.3%)  < 0.001

*Low-income neighborhood is defined by lowest income quintile of 1 and 2; dependency: neighborhood concentrations of individuals have no income including seniors, children, and adults whose work is not compensated, material deprivation: neighborhood levels of income, quality of housing, educational attainment and family structure characteristics, ethnic concentration: neighborhood concentration of recent immigrants, and/or belonging to visible minority group as defined by statistics Canada

Residential instability: neighborhood concentration of types and density of residential accommodations and family structure characteristics

COPD chronic obstructive lung disease, PCI percutaneous coronary intervention, CABG coronary artery bypass grafting, TIA transient ischemic attack