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Multivariate Cox models were used to adjust for potential confounding factors: age, gender, body mass index, heart failure symptoms, CPS, ADL summary scale, IADL involvement scale, problematic alcohol use, smoking, sensitive disability (hearing or visual impairment), indicators of depressive mood, delirium (full diagnosis criteria), self-estimate of poor health, faecal incontinence and number of medications. The same analyses were performed considering UI according to its severity. The choice of confounding factors was based on previous publications. Proportional hazards assumption was verified using a Schoenfeld test. The http://www.selleck.cn/products/nlg919.html total length of hospital stay was obtained by adding together the length or each individual admission. The association between UI and length of stay was tested using a regression model adjusting for confounding factors, in which length of stay was log-transformed to correct for skewed data. All analyses were performed using stata statistical software, version 12.0 (StataCorp LP, College Station, TX, USA). Urinary continence status was available for 694 participants (99.3%). We found that 193 of the http://www.selleckchem.com/products/bmn-673.html 694 patients (27.8%) had UI. Participants with UI were more often women, had a greater number of disabilities and tended to be older (Table?1). Grade I UI, grade II UI and daily UI were present in 100/694 (14.4%), 63/694 (9.1%) and 30/694 (4.4%) participants, respectively. A higher UI severity was associated with a greater dependence in ADL and IADL, use of services and medication use (Table?2). Dependence in at least one area of ADL was present for 54.4% participants in the UI group and 38.1% in the group without UI (control group; P 96% received professional aid (Table?S1). Apart from home-making, hospital day care and social worker services, participants with UI more often used professional services. The median follow-up http://www.selleckchem.com/products/pexidartinib-plx3397.html period was 963 days, resulting in 448 participant-years in the UI group and 1234 participant-years in group without UI. No participant was lost to follow-up. A total of 112 deaths occurred during the study period. We found that UI was associated with a significantly higher mortality rate (Fig.?1). Mortality rates for the first and second year and by the end of follow-up were 6.7% (95% CI: 4.0�C11.3), 20.2% (95% CI: 15.2�C26.6) and 24.9% (95% CI: 19.4�C31.6), respectively, in the UI group compared with 3.2% (95% CI: 2.0�C5.2), 10.6% (95% CI: 8.2�C13.7) and 12.8% (95% CI: 10.2�C16.1), respectively, in the group without UI (log-rank test: P
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