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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2022 Sep 29;55(2):273–280. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000003046

Table 5:

Multivariablea hazard ratio (95% CI) for risk of frailty according to the number of pre-existing frailty criteria at entry to follow-up

0 criterion (case= 7241) 1 criterion (case=3832) 2 criteria (case= 1380)

METs (per 3 MET hour/wk)
Total activity 0.96 (0.95, 0.96) 0.96 (0.95, 0.96) 0.97 (0.96, 0.99)
Moderate activity 0.92 (0.91, 0.93) 0.92 (0.90, 0.94) 0.94 (0.91. 0.97)
Vigorous activity 0.98 (0.97, 0.99) 0.98 (0.96, 0.99) 0.99 (0.97, 1.01)
Duration (per 1 hour/d)
Total activity 0.61 (0.57, 0.65) 0.61 (0.55, 0.67) 0.71 (0.60, 0.84)
Moderate activity 0.55 (0.50, 0.60) 0.58 (0.50, 0.67) 0.66 (0.52, 0.84)
Vigorous activity 0.70 (0.63, 0.78) 0.65 (0.55, 0.77) 0.79 (0.59, 1.05)
a

Multivariable adjusted for age, BMI, energy intake, alcohol intake, AHEI-2010 score, post-menopausal hormone use, smoking, highest degree earned, use of the following medications: aspirin, beta blockers, hydrochlorthiazide, ACE inihibitors, calcium channel blockers, other antihypertensive medications, insulin, oral hypoglycemics, lipid lowering medication. Moderate and vigorous activities were mutually adjusted for each other.