Gait speed and hospitalization among ambulatory hemodialysis patients: USRDS special study data

Table 3 Characteristics associated with hospitalization in past 12 mo from multivariable logistic regression analysis

	1Adjusted odds ratios (95%CI) for Hospitalization	P value
Gait speed/fall history
2Faster walk/no fall history (reference)	1
3Slower walk/no fall history	1.79 (1.11, 2.88)	0.02
Slower walk/fall history	2.10 (1.19, 3.73)	0.01
Faster walk/fall history	1.46 (0.90, 2.39)	0.13
Female	0.55 (0.39, 0.78)	< 0.001
Age, yr	0.98 (0.97, 1.00)	0.01
ESRD vintage, yr	0.95 (0.92, 0.98)	0.003

¹Adjusted also for race, diabetes, CHF, CAD, CVA, PVD, other cardiac diseases, COPD, cancer, hemoglobin level, KDQOL-CF score, assistive device use (variables not significantly associated in this logistic regression model with hospitalized/not hospitalized in past 12 mo);

²Faster walk = gait speed ≥ 0.8 m/s;

³Slower walk = gait speed < 0.8 m/s. ESRD: End-stage renal disease.