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

Table 4

Logistic regression predicting odds of having fallen in the past year by risk factors in study population adjusted with sex.

Risk factors	Total study population
	OR	95% CI
	2.97	1.73, 5.11
Body mass index (per 1 SD increase	1.31	1.03, 1.66
Cardiovascular	2.16	1.13, 4.12

Backward stepwise logistic regression: ; ; variable(s) in the model: age (per 1 SD), gender, 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.