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Table 1 Sociodemographic and clinical-care characteristics of chronic patients > 65 years, overall and by sex and age groups

From: Chronic diseases in the geriatric population: morbidity and use of primary care services according to risk level

Variables n (%)

Total

3292 (100)

Men

1125 (34.2)

Women

2167 (65.8)

p

66–75 years

1409 (42.8)

76–85 years

1239 (37.6)

>  85 years

644 (19.6)

p

Sociodemographic variables

 Agea

78.1 (8.1)

77 (7.5)

78.6 (8.2)

< 0.01

70.31 (2.8)

80.82 (2.8)

89.87 (3.5)

< 0.01

 Origin: Spain

2801 (85.1)

963 (85.6)

1838 (84.8)

 

1198 (85.0)

1046 (84.4)

557 (86.5)

 

  Another European country

96 (2.9)

29 (2.6)

67 (3.1)

0.7

36 (2.6)

35 (2.8)

25 (3.9)

 0.1

  Rest of the world

395 (12)

133 (11.8)

262 (12.1)

 

175 (12.4)

158 (12.8)

62 (9.6)

 

Clinical-care variables

 Immobilized

286 (8.7)

68 (6)

218 (10.1)

< 0.01

15 (1.1)

97 (7.8)

174 (27)

< 0.01

 Institutionalized

154 (4.7)

35 (3.1)

119 (5.5)

< 0.01

6 (0.4)

48 (3.9)

100 (15.5)

< 0.01

 Primary Caregiver

218 (6.6)

58 (5.2)

160 (7.4)

0.01

16 (1.1)

75 (6.1)

127 (19.7)

< 0.01

 Need for home support

77 (2.3)

20 (1.8)

57 (2.6)

0.12

4 (0.3)

25 (2.0)

48 (7.5)

< 0.01

 Palliative Care

32 (1)

17 (1.5)

15 (0.7)

0.02

6 (0.4)

15 (1.2)

11 (1.7)

0.01

 Level of risk

  Low

1628 (49.5)

522 (46.4)

1106 (51.0)

 

885 (62.8)

516 (41.6)

227 (35.2)

 

  Medium

1293 (39.3)

438 (38.9)

855 (39.5)

<0.01

450 (31.9)

553 (44.6)

290 (45.0)

<0.01

  High

371 (11.2)

165 (14.7)

206 (9.5)

 

74 (5.3)

170 (13.7)

127 (19.7)

 

 Complexity indexa

11.2 (8.9)

12.2 (9.9)

10.7 (8.2)

< 0.01

8.8 (6.6)

12.5 (9.6)

14.1 (10.3)

< 0.01

  Number of chronic diseasesa

3.8 (2.1)

3.6 (2)

4 (2)

< 0.01

3.4 (1.8)

4.2 (2.1)

4.3 (2.2)

< 0.01

 Multimorbidity

2943 (89.4)

975 (86.7)

1968 (90.8)

< 0.01

1204 (85.5)

1142 (92.2)

597 (92.7)

< 0.01

 Polymedicated

1550 (47.1)

471 (41.9)

1079 (49.8)

< 0.01

122 (8.7)

923 (74.5)

505 (78.4)

< 0.01

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