Table 5 Factor loadings, class intercepts, class thresholds and classes means for the Fried, the SiMI and the WMI models
Fried 3-Class model | SiMI 4-Class model | WMI 3-Class model | Total | ||||||||
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Frail | Pre-frail | Robust | Class 1 | Class 2 | Class 3 | Class 4 | Class 1 | Class 2 | Class 3 | sample | |
Part A. Coefficients for the Fried LCA 3-class, FRéLE SiMI-uv 4-classes and FRéLE WMI-uv models | |||||||||||
Factor loadings | |||||||||||
Exhaustion | N.A.* | N.A. | N.A. | 1,00 | 1,00 | 1,00 | 1,00 | 1,00 | 1,00 | 1,00 | N.A. |
Physical Activities | N.A. | N.A. | N.A. | 4,10 | 4,10 | 4,10 | 4,10 | 4,61 | 4,61 | 4,61 | N.A. |
Grip strength | N.A. | N.A. | N.A. | 1,21 | 1,21 | 1,21 | 1,21 | 1,13 | 1,13 | 1,13 | N.A. |
Gait speed | N.A. | N.A. | N.A. | 2,17 | 2,17 | 2,17 | 2,17 | 3,38 | 3,38 | 3,38 | N.A. |
Weight lost (in Kg) | N.A. | N.A. | N.A. | −0,35 | −0,35 | −0,35 | −0,35 | −0,13 | −0,13 | −0,13 | N.A. |
Class thresholds or Intercepts | |||||||||||
Exhaustion | 0,16 | −0,82 | − 2954 | 43,15 | 43,15 | 43,15 | 43,15 | 53,23 | 62,42 | 73,76 | N.A. |
Physical Activities | 1,26 | −0,92 | − 7706 | 0,00 | 0,00 | 0,00 | 0,00 | 57,96 | 69,88 | 121,53 | N.A. |
Grip strength | 0,38 | −0,81 | − 3293 | 34,77 | 34,77 | 34,77 | 34,77 | 56,44 | 47,73 | 73,53 | N.A. |
Gait speed | 3,32 | −1,05 | − 3275 | 44,28 | 44,28 | 44,28 | 44,28 | 83,54 | 79,10 | 100,00 | N.A. |
Weight lost (in Kg if > 0) | N.A. | N.A. | N.A. | 7,05 | 7,05 | 7,05 | 7,05 | 0,00 | 3,47 | 0,00 | N.A. |
Weight lost (1 if Kg > 4,5; else = 0) | 1,05 | 1,27 | 3366 | 0,45 | 0,45 | 0,45 | 0,45 | 0,00 | 1,03 | 1,47 | N.A. |
Means | N.A. | N.A. | N.A. | 32.232 | 21,72 | 8,53 | 0,00 | N.A. | N.A. | N.A. | N.A. |
Part B. Associations of FRéLE and Fried classes with frailty components | |||||||||||
Means on components | |||||||||||
Exhaustion | 42,72 | 57,77 | 72,13 | 43,20 | 50,00 | 65,40 | 77,30 | 46,70 | 62,80 | 75,30 | 63,10 |
Physical Activities | 11,07 | 67,92 | 111,92 | −16,00 | 28,66 | 91,50 | 146,14 | 47,00 | 65,80 | 127,50 | 82,98 |
Grip strength | 40,72 | 53,16 | 68,40 | 40,20 | 43,12 | 60,00 | 81,20 | 56,00 | 45,60 | 76,00 | 59,22 |
Gait speed | 49,49 | 79,16 | 103,20 | 33,76 | 59,70 | 91,79 | 120,83 | 86,10 | 77,70 | 101,90 | 87,72 |
Weight lost (in Kg if > 0) | 8,42 | 7,15 | 0,00 | 12,11 | 4,35 | 3,88 | 4,25 | 7,65 | 3,58 | 4,21 | 7,37 |
Weight lost (1 if Kg > 0; else = 0) | 43,7% | 21,0% | 0,00% | 38,6% | 21,8% | 9,5% | 3,2% | 23,7% | 12,6% | 3,6% | 13,2% |
Part C. Associations of FRéLE classes and Fried classes with frailty risk factors | |||||||||||
Means on risk factors | |||||||||||
Age | 84,6 | 80,4 | 75,9 | 83,3 | 83,9 | 78,0 | 73,0 | 79,60 | 81,40 | 75,20 | 78,10 |
Males | 46,8% | 48,9% | 51,2% | 61,4% | 32,5% | 50,4% | 69,5% | 50,7% | 29,6% | 70,7% | 50,0% |
Education | 4,41 | 5,22 | 5,72 | 4,18 | 4,55 | 5,48 | 6,30 | 5,14 | 4,93 | 5,99 | 5,37 |
Self rated health | 3,44 | 2,93 | 2,34 | 3,43 | 3,23 | 2,64 | 2,06 | 3,16 | 2,82 | 2,25 | 2,71 |
Chronic Diseases | 4,60 | 3,80 | 2,50 | 4,70 | 4,30 | 3,10 | 2,20 | 4,07 | 3,50 | 2,38 | 3,25 |
Cognitive Impairment | 21,5 | 23,4 | 24,8 | 20,5 | 22,3 | 24,2 | 25,5 | 23,2 | 23,4 | 24,8 | 23,90 |
Depressive symptoms | 62,9% | 27,7% | 7,4% | 65,1% | 45,3% | 15,0% | 5,2% | 46,2% | 21,9% | 5,1% | 22,1% |
Disability in IADL | 93,2% | 55,4% | 23,4% | 100,0% | 85,4% | 34,8% | 8,8% | 62,8% | 58,0% | 1,6% | 44,4% |
Disability in ADL | 66,8% | 30,3% | 11,3% | 84,1% | 49,5% | 17,7% | 7,1% | 39,6% | 30,5% | 10,0% | 25,6% |
Deceased | 34,8% | 14,5% | 5,9% | 40,9% | 22,9% | 9,5% | 4,9% | 20,7% | 13,7% | 6,3% | 13,0% |
Number of cases | 207 | 627 | 807 | 47 | 411 | 874 | 309 | 422 | 628 | 591 | 1641 |
% in each class or class | 12,5% | 38,3% | 49,2% | 2,7% | 25,1% | 53,4% | 18,8% | 25,7% | 38,3% | 36,0% | |