Table 2 Sample characteristics (N = 2598)
From: Associations of frailty with health care costs – results of the ESTHER cohort study
Characteristic | N | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
Age in years | Mean: 69.55 | SD: 6.23 | |
Sex | - female | 1339 | 51.5 % |
- male | 1259 | 48.5 % | |
Marital status | - single | 84 | 3.3 % |
- married | 1874 | 72.8 % | |
- divorced | 177 | 6.9 % | |
- widowed | 4,8 | 17.0 % | |
Education | ≤9 years | 1708 | 66.7 % |
10–11 years | 451 | 17.6 % | |
≥12 years | 402 | 15.7 % | |
Type of health insurance | - SHI | 2375 | 92.1 % |
- PHI | 203 | 7.9 % | |
Frailty | - Non-frail (0) | 876 | 33.8 % |
- Pre-frail (1) | 1034 | 39.9 % | |
- Pre-frail (2) | 472 | 18.2 % | |
- Frail (3) | 142 | 5.5 % | |
- Frail (4) | 61 | 2.4 % | |
- Frail (5) | 4 | 0.2 % | |
Low physical activity | no | 2078 | 80.0 % |
yes | 520 | 20.0 % | |
Exhaustion | no | 2290 | 88.1 % |
yes | 308 | 11.9 % | |
Weight loss | no | 2479 | 95.8 % |
yes | 110 | 4.2 % | |
Slowness | no | 1665 | 64.1 % |
yes | 933 | 35.9 % | |
Weakness | no | 1788 | 68.8 % |
yes | 810 | 31.2 % | |