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Table 4
Adjusted hazard ratios relating cause of death during a three-to-five-year follow-up period to frailty category, household population aged 65 or older, Canada excluding the territories, 2013 to 2014

Table 4
Adjusted hazard ratios relating cause of death during a three-to-five-year follow-up period to frailty category, household population aged 65 or older, Canada excluding the territories, 2013 to 2014
Table summary
This table displays the results of Adjusted hazard ratios relating cause of death during a three-to-five-year follow-up period to frailty category. The information is grouped by Characteristics (appearing as row headers), Cause of death, All cause, Neoplasm, Disease of the circulatory system, Disease of the respiratory system, Adjusted
hazard ratio and 95% confidence interval (appearing as column headers).
Characteristics	Cause of death
	All cause			Neoplasm			Disease of the circulatory system			Disease of the respiratory system
	Adjusted hazard ratio	95% confidence interval		Adjusted hazard ratio	95% confidence interval		Adjusted hazard ratio	95% confidence interval		Adjusted hazard ratio	95% confidence interval
	Adjusted hazard ratio	from	to	Adjusted hazard ratio	from	to	Adjusted hazard ratio	from	to	Adjusted hazard ratio	from	to
Frailty category
Robust (0.0 to ≤ 0.10)^{Table 4 Note †}	1.0	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	1.0	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	1.0	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	1.0	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Pre-frail (> 0.10 to ≤ 0.21)	1.5^Note *	1.3	1.8	1.5^Note *	1.1	2.0	1.4^Note *	1.0	1.9	2.1^Note *	1.2	3.6
Moderately frail (> 0.21 to < 0.45)	2.9^Note *	2.4	3.4	2.0^Note *	1.5	2.6	3.0^Note *	2.2	4.3	4.7^Note *	2.9	7.6
Most frail (≥ 0.45)	5.9^Note *	4.5	7.7	1.8^Note *	1.0	3.1	5.4^Note *	3.0	9.8	7.6^Note *	3.6	16.4
Sex
Male	1.8^Note *	1.6	2.0	1.6^Note *	1.3	2.1	1.9^Note *	1.5	2.3	2.2^Note *	1.5	3.1
Female^{Table 4 Note †}	1.0	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	1.0	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	1.0	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable	1.0	Note ...: not applicable	Note ...: not applicable
Age (continuous)	1.09^Note *	1.08	1.10	1.07^Note *	1.05	1.08	1.12^Note *	1.10	1.14	1.11^Note *	1.08	1.14
... not applicable Note * significantlydifferent from estimate for reference category (p < 0.05) Return to note * referrer Note † reference category Return to note † referrer Notes: In addition to age and sex, the models controlled for alcohol use in the past 12 months (regular, occasional, never), smoking (current, former, never), household education, and marital status and living arrangements; data not shown. Sources: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey, 2013 and 2014, linked to the Canadian Vital Statistics - Death Database up to December 31, 2017.

Date modified:: 2021-04-21