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Table 1 Overall network prevalence by frailty status

From: Integrated information for integrated care in the general practice setting in Italy: using social network analysis to go beyond the diagnosis of frailty in the elderly

 

Not Frails (NF) N = 16,188

Pre-frails with social needs (PFSN) N = 1098

Pre-frails with health needs (PFHN) N = 4521

Frails (FR) N = 2189

N(%)

Overall network prevalencea

67.5

4.6

18.8

9.1

 By gendera

  Female

62.5

4.5

22.1

10.9

  Male

74.9

4.7

14.0

6.4

Gender ratio (M/F)

0.8

0.7

0.4

0.4

 By agea

  75–79

83.3

4.7

8.0

3.9

  80–84

69.6

5.0

16.6

8.9

  85–89

51.3

4.5

29.9

14.3

  90+

31.4

2.8

46.2

19.6

Hospitalization within frailty statusb

14.2

15.7

22.9

23.5

 For multi-morbid profilesb

6.7

9.6

13.0

14.4

 Circulatory d. + End-Metabolic d.

0.5

0.7

0.8

1.1

 Circulatory d + Respiratory d.

0.3

0.3

0.6

0.5

 Circulatory d + Digestive d.

0.4

0.4

0.3

0.2

 Circulatory d + Injury-Poisoning

0.2

0.2

0.5

0.2

 Circulatory d + Genito-Urinary d.

0.2

0.4

0.3

0.6

 Circ. d. + End-Met. d. + Resp. d

0.1

0.5

0.2

0.3

 Circulatory d. + Neoplasms

0.2

0.3

0.2

0.3

 Neoplasms + Digestive d.

0.2

0.1

0.2

0.1

 Neoplasms + Genito-Urinary.

0.2

0.3

0.1

0.0

 Circulatory d + Sign-Symptoms

0.1

0.2

0.2

0.1

 Circulatory d + Muscoloskeletal d.

0.1

0.5

0.1

0.3

 Circulatory d. + Nervous d.

0.1

0.0

0.2

0.2

 Circ. d. + Resp. d + Genito-Urinary

0.1

0.5

0.1

0.2

 Circulatory d + Mental illness

0.1

0.2

0.1

0.3

 Circ. d. + End-Met. d. + Gen-Urin. d

0.1

0.0

0.0

0.2

 Other multi-morbid profiles

3.8

5.2

9.0

9.7

  1. aPrevalence estimates referred to the overall study population
  2. bPrevalence estimates specific for each frailty status