Research Article

Burden and Correlates of Falls among Rural Elders of South India: Mobility and Independent Living in Elders Study

Table 3

Logistic regression predicting odds of having fallen in the past year by risk factors among Women.

Risk factors Women
OR95% CI

Depression1.710.87, 3.35
Poor physical performance (SPPB ≤ 93.331.13, 9.86
Cardiovascular 2.421.01, 5.80

Backward stepwise logistic regression: ; variable(s) in the model: age (per 1 SD), arthritis, depression, diastolic BP (per 1 SD), SPPB, BMI (per 1 SD), cardiovascular disease, stroke, vision, height (per 1 SD), ADL, diabetes, education, and marital status.