Table 2 Prevalence and 95% CI of geriatric syndrome by different characteristics of the study population (n = 17,612)
From: Social position and geriatric syndromes among Swedish older people: a population-based study
Characteristics | Category | Geriatric syndromea | |
|---|---|---|---|
n | % | ||
Health status | |||
Self-rated health | Very good, good and moderate | 10,834 | 67.7 |
Bad and very bad | 1199 | 97.9 | |
BMI status | Obese | 1771 | 78.6 |
Overweight | 4654 | 68.8 | |
Normal | 5181 | 67.5 | |
Underweight | 210 | 76.1 | |
Chronic conditions | No | 4315 | 63.0 |
Yes | 7827 | 74.3 | |
Health behavior | |||
Poor dietary habit | No | 10,431 | 68.8 |
Yes | 1066 | 74.6 | |
Sedentary lifestyle | No | 9943 | 67.2 |
Yes | 1949 | 86.4 | |
Alcohol binge drinking | No | 9540 | 68.4 |
Yes | 986 | 74.5 | |
Current Tobacco user | No | 9073 | 69.7 |
Yes | 1713 | 70,7 | |
Social stress | |||
Living alone | No | 7737 | 66.3 |
Yes | 4493 | 77.2 | |
Lack of social support | No | 10,528 | 68.8 |
Yes | 1495 | 77.8 | |
Socially inactive | No | 6321 | 66.5 |
Yes | 5310 | 74.1 | |
Distrust in neighborhood | No | 11,342 | 69.2 |
Yes | 739 | 80.6 | |