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Table 4 Categorization of National Demographic Data (N = 5466) by Severity of Frailty

From: Strategies for working across Canadian practice-based research and learning networks (PBRLNs) in primary care: focus on frailty

Characteristic

Not frail (CFS 1-3)

Vulnerable (CFS 4)

Mildly to Moderately Frail (CFS 5-6)

Severely Frail (CFS 7-9)

P-value

N (%)

3520 (64.4)

940 (17.2)

839 (15.4)

167 (3.1)

 

Categorization by Province

 British Columbia n(%); N = 1137

850 (74.8)

138 (12.1)

121 (10.6)

28 (2.5)

< 0.001*

 Alberta n(%); N = 858

563 (65.6)

145 (16.9)

122 (14.2)

28 (3.3)

 Manitoba n(%); N = 885

585 (66.1)

194 (21.9)

97 (11.0)

9 (1.0)

 Ontario n(%); N = 2315

1319 (57.0)

426 (18.4)

477 (20.6)

93 (4.0)

 Nova Scotia n(%); N = 271

203 (74.9)

37 (13.7)

22 (8.1)

9 (3.3)

Demographics

 Age, mean (SD))

73.0 (6.3)

76.1 (7.3)

80.1 (8.5)

83.5 (9.1)

< 0.001†

 Male, N (%)

1681 (47.8)

396 (42.1)

288 (34.3)

60 (35.9)

< 0.001*

Frailty Risk Factors

 Missing Frailty Risk Factors

618 (17.6)

62 (6.6)

43 (5.1)

9 (5.4)

< 0.001*

 Hypertension, N (%)

2153 (74.2)

701 (79.8)

637 (80.0)

123 (77.8)

< 0.001*

 Diabetes, N (%)

1098 (37.8)

394 (44.9)

309 (38.8)

65 (41.1)

0.003*

 Dementia, N (%)

135 (4.7)

76 (8.7)

166 (20.9)

72 (45.6)

< 0.001*

 Depression, N (%)

585 (20.2)

254 (28.9)

269 (33.8)

47 (29.7)

< 0.001*

 Osteoarthritis, N (%)

1309 (45.1)

439 (50.0)

376 (47.2)

63 (39.9)

0.025*

 Epilepsy, N (%)

57 (2.0)

13 (1.5)

17 (2.1)

7 (4.4)

0.107*

 BMI, mean (SD)

29.0 (6.0)

31.5 (7.8)

29.6 (7.0)

28.3 (6.2)

< 0.001†

 Number of Medications (mean (SD))

6.4 (4.9)

8.6 (6.5)

10.3 (7.3)

11.4 (7.5)

< 0.001†

 Number of Encounters in the Last Year (mean (SD))

6.1 (5.3)

8.4 (6.9)

8.8 (6.8)

8.1 (7.2)

< 0.001†

  1. *P-value calculated using Chi-Squared tests
  2. †P-value calculated using t-tests