Comparison of difficulty with activities of daily living in elderly adults undergoing hemodialysis and community-dwelling individuals: a cross-sectional study

Kutsuna, Toshiki; Isobe, Yusuke; Watanabe, Takaaki; Matsunaga, Yusuke; Kusaka, Satomi; Kusumoto, Yasuaki; Tsuchiya, Junko; Umeda, Masaru; Watanabe, Hiroyuki; Shimizu, Shinobu; Yoshida, Atsushi; Matsunaga, Atsuhiko

doi:10.1186/s41100-019-0250-7

Table 3 Simple and multiple regression analysis of the effect on ADL difficulty score

From: Comparison of difficulty with activities of daily living in elderly adults undergoing hemodialysis and community-dwelling individuals: a cross-sectional study

Variable	Univariate				Multivariate
Variable	Unstandardized regression coefficient	95% confidence interval	Standardized regression coefficient (β)	P value	Unstandardized regression coefficient	95% confidence interval	Standardized regression coefficient (β)	P value
a: U/L ADL difficulty
Intercept					28.16	7.14 to 49.18
Age (years)	−0.41	−0.66 to −0.17	−0.25	0.001	0.001	−0.19 to 0.19	0.001	0.99
Male	1.71	0.10 to 3.33	0.16	0.04	0.07	−1.48 to 1.61	0.01	0.93
Body mass index (kg/m²)	0.80	0.29 to 1.30	0.23	0.002	0.34	−0.04 to 0.73	0.10	0.08
Living alone	−1.89	−3.83 to 0.06	0.14	0.06	−0.17	−1.52 to 1.17	−0.01	0.80
SARC-F score (points)	−3.63	−4.18 to −3.08	−0.70	< 0.001	−2.68	−3.41 to −1.95	−0.52	< 0.001
Hemodialysis	−4.38	−6.21 to −2.55	−0.34	< 0.001	0.55	−1.25 to 2.35	0.04	0.55
Grip strength (kg)	0.75	0.56 to 0.95	0.50	< 0.001	0.31	0.06 to 0.56	0.21	0.02
Usual gait speed (m/s)	16.77	13.26 to 20.29	0.53	< 0.001	4.61	−0.24 to 9.46	0.16	0.06
b: L/L ADL difficulty
Intercept					45.07	24.26 to 65.89
Age (years)	−0.45	−0.73 to −0.17	−0.24	0.002	−0.04	−0.23 to 0.15	−0.02	0.65
Male	0.74	−1.14 to 2.62	0.06	0.44	0.68	−0.84 to 2.21	0.05	0.38
Body mass index (kg/m²)	0.26	−0.34 to 0.85	0.07	0.39	−0.03	−0.41 to 0.35	−0.01	0.89
Living alone	−1.57	−3.82 to 0.68	−0.10	0.17	0.70	−0.64 to 2.03	0.05	0.30
SARC-F score (points)	−4.65	−5.21 to −4.10	−0.78	< 0.001	−3.36	−4.08 to −2.63	−0.56	< 0.001
Hemodialysis	−6.39	−8.41 to −4.36	−0.43	< 0.001	−0.17	−1.95 to 1.61	−0.01	0.85
Grip strength (kg)	0.62	0.38 to 0.86	0.36	< 0.001	−0.09	−0.34 to 0.16	−0.05	0.50
Usual gait speed (m/s)	23.93	20.47 to 27.38	0.72	< 0.001	11.61	6.81 to 16.42	0.35	< 0.001

ADL: activities of daily living, L/L: lower limb, U/L upper limb

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