Fig 1.
Top Ten Predictors (out of 25 variables available in all four datasets) of Five-Year Mortality After Adjustment for Age and Sex, Ranked by the Gain in AUC, A) Costa Rica, B) England, C) Taiwan, and D) the U.S.
Abbreviations: ADL, Activities of daily living; AUC, Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve; CRP, C-reactive protein; Depress, Depressive Symptoms; Educ, Educational attainment; HbA1c, Glycosylated hemoglobin; Heart dis., Heart disease; IADL, Instrumental Activities of Daily Living; SAH, Self-assessed health status, Social Int., Social integration. a The values for diabetes and depressive symptoms in Taiwan are too close to be distinguishable.
Fig 2.
Environmental Predictors of Five-Year Mortality After Adjustment for Age and Sex, Ranked by the Gain in AUC, A) Costa Rica, B) England, C) Taiwan, and D) the U.S.
Abbreviations: Educ, Educational attainment; Social Int., Social integration.
Fig 3.
Additional Predictors of Five-Year Mortality that Yield a Gain in AUC≥0.01 After Adjustment for Age and Sex, A) Costa Rica, B) England, C) Taiwan, and D) the U.S.
The unlabeled markers represent variables displayed in Fig 1. Abbreviations: 5+ Meds, 5+ Medications; AUC, Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve; Chair std., Chair stand speed; Church Attend., Church attendance; Fbg, Fibrinogen; Gait sp., Gait Speed; Grip, Grip strength; Hcy, Homocysteine; Hosp stays, Number of hospitalizations; IAH, Interviewer-assessed health status; IL-6, Interleukin-6; PEF, Peak expiratory flow; sE-selectin, Soluble E-selectin; sICAM-1, Soluble intercellular adhesion molecule 1.