The association between nutrient intake, nutritional status and physical function of community-dwelling ethnically diverse older adults

Table 4 Hierarchical multiple regression predicting SPPB and HGS scores (N = 100)

	SPPB				HGS (kg)
Predictors	B (95% CI)	SE	p-value	R²change	B (95% CI)	SE	p-value	R²change
Sociodemographic variables
Male vs female	−0.05 (−1.11, 1.01)	0.53	0.930	0.216	−3.02 (−6.56, 0.52)	1.78	0.093	0.342
Age	−0.09 (− 0.15, − 0.03)	0.03	< 0.001		− 0.45 (− 0.65, − 0.25)	0.1	< 0.001
Married vs not married	− 1.34 (−2.45, − 0.24)	0.55	0.020		−0.53 (− 1.30, 0.24)	0.39	0.177
IMD	0.14 (−0.09, 0.37)	0.12	0.240		−1.41 (−2.66, −0.15)	0.63	0.028
No education vs Education	−1.23 (−2.64, 0.18)	0.71	0.090		1.17 (−3.54, 5.88)	2.37	0.623
Number of diseases	−0.26 (−0.64, 0.11)	0.19	0.170		−2.87 (−6.56, 0.82)	1.85	0.125
Nutritional status (by MNA-SF)	0.39 (0.10, 0.67)	0.14	0.010	0.091	0.16 (−0.78, 1.10)	0.47	0.732	0.009
WC	−0.15 (− 0.22, − 0.09)	0.03	< 0.001	0.152	− 0.05 (− 0.52, 0.42)	0.24	0.834	0.010
BMI	0.12 (−0.02, 0.26)	0.07	0.090	0.152	−0.06 (− 0.28, 0.16)	0.11	0.579	0.010
Nutrient intakes
Fibre	0.08 (0.02, 0.15)	0.03	0.010	0.075	0.28 (0.07, 0.50)	0.11	0.011	0.061
Vitamin D	−0.04 (−0.12, 0.04)	0.04	0.340		−0.19 (− 0.45, 0.08)	0.13	0.164
Vitamin B6	1.33 (0.35, 2.32)	0.49	0.010		1.33 (−1.95, 4.62)	1.65	0.421
Total R²	0.534				0.423

N 100, WC Waist Circumference, IMD Index of Multiple Deprivation, BMI Body Mass Index, MNA-SF Mini-Nutritional Assessment-Short Form

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