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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of participants

From: Association of timed up and go test outcomes with future incidence of cardiovascular disease and mortality in adults aged 66 years: Korean national representative longitudinal study over 5.7 years

 

Total

Normal

Abnormal

 

N = 40,774 (%)

N = 25,112 (%)

N = 15,661 (%)

P valueb

Sex (women) (%)

21,690 (53.2)

12,662 (50.4)

9028 (57.7)

<  0.001

Income, lowest quintile

10,026 (24.6)

6258 (24.9)

3768 (24.1)

0.029

Timed up and go (sec)

9.4 ± 4.3

7.4 ± 1.4

12.5 ± 5.2

<  0.001

BMI (kg/m2)a

24.2 ± 3.0

24.2 ± 3.0

24.4 ± 3.1

 

  < 18.5

973 (2.4)

603 (2.4)

370 (2.4)

< 0.001

 18.5–23

13,017 (31.9)

8140 (32.4)

4877 (31.1)

 23–25

11,236 (27.6)

7070 (28.2)

4166 (26.6)

  ≥ 25

15,548 (38.1)

9299 (37.0)

6248 (39.9)

Cigarette smoking

 Never

18.162 (70.2)

11,089 (68.5)

7072 (73.1)

< 0.001

 Former

3757 (14.5)

2547 (15.7)

1210 (13.0)

 Current

3949 (15.3)

2557 (15.8)

1392 (14.0)

At-risk alcohol drinking

12,483 (30.6)

7842 (31.2)

4641 (29.6)

< 0.001

Regular exercise

15,539 (38.1)

9694 (38.6)

5845 (37.3)

< 0.001

Hypertension

29,110 (71.4)

17,668 (70.4)

11,442 (73.1)

< 0.001

Diabetes mellitus

18,548 (45.5)

11,233 (44.7)

7315 (46.7)

< 0.001

Dyslipidemia

22,511 (55.2)

13,826 (55.1)

8685 (55.5)

0.431

Chronic kidney disease

1273 (3.1)

770 (3.1)

503 (3.2)

0.411

Normal activity of daily living

25,172 (96.6)

15,635 (96.3)

9536 (97.2)

< 0.001

Normal cognition

31,067 (77.9)

19,249 (78.5)

11,818 (76.9)

< 0.001

Cardiovascular disease

3111 (7.6)

1745 (7.0)

1366 (8.7)

< 0.001

Cardiovascular death

271 (0.7)

137 (0.6)

134 (0.9)

< 0.001

All-cause death

2146 (5.3)

1207 (4.8)

939 (6.0)

< 0.001

  1. aAbbreviation: BMI body mass index
  2. b In comparison between normal and abnormal groups, Student t-test was used for continuous variables, and chi-square test was used for categorical variables