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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of participants according to survival status through December 31, 2019

From: Associations of life’s crucial 9 with mortality among older adults with frailty: a prospective cohort study from the NHANES 2007 to 2018

Variable

Total

Alive

Deceased

P value

Number(N)

2690

1755

935

< 0.001

Age (year)

71.25 ± 0.21

69.80 ± 0.25

74.21 ± 0.28

Sex, n (%)

   

0.009

 Female

1436(58.51)

1010(61.22)

426(52.98)

 Male

1254(41.49)

745(38.78)

509(47.02)

Race, n (%)

   

< 0.001

 Non-Hispanic Black

594(10.02)

424(10.90)

170(8.21)

 Non-Hispanic White

1387(76.57)

771(73.26)

616(83.30)

 Mexican American

323(4.67)

257(5.40)

66(3.18)

 Others

386(8.74)

303(10.43)

83(5.31)

Education level, n (%)

   

< 0.001

 Less than high school

1393(45.20)

941(46.13)

452(43.31)

 College or above

1074(46.90)

726(49.16)

348(42.28)

 High school

223(7.90)

88(4.71)

135(14.41)

Marital, n (%)

   

0.010

 Married

1296(52.89)

869(54.75)

427(49.10)

 Separated

1258(42.68)

788(40.24)

470(47.65)

 Unmarried

136(4.43)

98(5.01)

38(3.25)

 BMI (kg/m2)

31.57 ± 0.25

32.15 ± 0.28

30.37 ± 0.35

Family of poverty ratio

   

0.019

  < 1.3

1037(26.87)

686(26.23)

351(28.17)

 1.3–3.5

1173(46.18)

741(44.35)

432(49.92)

  > 3.5

480(26.95)

328(29.42)

152(21.91)

CVD, n (%)

   

< 0.001

 Yes

1281(47.67)

760(44.05)

521(55.04)

 No

1409(52.33)

995(55.95)

414(44.96)

DM, n (%)

   

0.160

 Yes

1408(48.56)

910(47.39)

498(50.94)

 No

1282(51.44)

845(52.61)

437(49.06)

Hypertension, n (%)

   

0.256

 Yes

2277(83.90)

1481(83.20)

796(85.32)

 No

413(16.10)

274(16.80)

139(14.68)

Cancer, n (%)

   

0.203

 Yes

752(33.25)

443(32.14)

309(35.53)

 No

1938(66.75)

1312(67.86)

626(64.47)

  1. Mean ± standard error (SE) for continuous variables, Percentage (%) for categorical variables