Cluster Analysis of the Associations among Physical Frailty, Cognitive Impairment and Mental Disorders

15 September 2020: Clinical Research

Ljiljana Trtica Majnarić ^12ACDEF , Sanja Bekić ^34ABDEF* , František Babič ^5CDEG , Ľudmila Pusztová ^5CDE , Ján Paralič ^5CDEG

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.924281

Med Sci Monit 2020; 26:e924281

Table 2 Average scores across clusters on the frailty and MMSE tests.

Cluster		Number of patients	Average score±SD*	p-Value (post-hoc)	Age (year)Average±SD	p-Value (post-hoc)
Frailty	1) HF	161	0.58 (0.721)	0.000HF: CI: CF: PhyF	69.40 (5.455)	0.000HF: CI: CF: PhyF
	2) CI	63	0.97 (0.782)	0.000CI: CF: PhyF	72.33 (6.611)	>0.05CI: PhyF0.000CI: HF: CF
	3) CF	21	3.48 (1.123)	>0.05CF: PhyF0.000CF: CI: HF	78.62 (5.792)	>0.05CF: PhyF0.000CF: CI: HF
	4) PhyF	18	3.61 (0.777)	>0.05PhyF: CF0.000PhyF: CI: HF	74.72 (6.515)	>0.05PhyF: CF: CI0.000PhF: HF
					71.20 (6.434)
MMSE	1) HF	161	27.42 (1.556)	0.000HF: CI: CF: PhyF
	2) CI	63	21.94 (1.958)	0.000CI: CF: PhyF
	3) CF	21	19.14 (2.308)	0.000CF: PhyFCF: CI: HF
	4) PhyF	18	24.89 (1.811)	0.000PhyF: CFPhyF: CI: HF

HF – highly functional; CI – cognitive impairment; CF – cognitive frailty; PhyF – physical frailty. ^* Higher scores on the frailty test indicate a higher level of physical frailty, whereas higher scores on the MMSE test indicate a higher level of cognitive function.