Frailty trajectories to identify end of life: a longitudinal population-based study

Table 3 Demographic characteristics of the classes and the proportion of individuals in each class from the age- and sex-adjusted model reweighted to the population level

	n	%	n Female	% Female	Reweighted n^a	%	Mean age	SD	Mean eFI^b
Total	26,298	–	14,620	55.59	191,584	–	–	–	–
Rapidly rising	583	2.22	327	56.09	2100	1.10	85.81	5.80	0.21
Moderate growth	5571	21.18	3105	55.74	33,225	17.34	85.57	5.88	0.26
Stable	20,144	76.60	11,188	55.54	156,259	81.56	85.34	6.02	0.25
Cases total	13,149	–	7310	55.59	13,149	6.86	–	–	–
Rapidly rising	415	3.16	241	58.07	415	3.16	85.13	5.92	0.23
Moderate growth	3242	24.66	1743	53.76	3242	24.66	85.21	5.90	0.28
Stable	9492	72.19	5326	56.11	9492	72.19	85.11	6.01	0.27
Controls total	13,149	–	7310	55.59	178,435	93.14	–	–	–
Rapidly rising	167	1.27	86	51.50	1685	0.94	87.45	5.17	0.18
Moderate growth	2330	17.72	1362	58.45	29,983	16.80	86.08	5.82	0.24
Stable	10,652	81.01	5862	55.03	146,767	82.25	85.54	6.01	0.23

^aPosterior probabilities for being in each class were combined with Office of National Statistics-derived population weights to reweight classes to the population level
^b Age adjusted

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