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Table 1 Characteristics of study participants, classified by sleep duration (unweighted)

From: Sleep duration, vegetable consumption and all-cause mortality among older adults in China: a 6-year prospective study

 

Total

Hours of sleep per day

p-value

 

≤5

6

7–8

9

≥10

# of participants

13,441

1,588

1,826

4,877

1,133

4,017

NA

% participant across sleep hours

100.0

11.81

13.59

36.28

8.43

29.89

NA

% Death in 2008–2014

58.4

57.0

52.8

51.2

56.0

70.8

< 0.001

Frequency of vegetable consumption

 % High

87.6

83.6

88.5

89.4

89.8

86.4

< 0.001

Demographics

 Age (mean, years)

87.0

86.2

85.0

85.0

86.0

91.1

< 0.001

 % Aged over 80 years

73.1

72.7

67.1

65.8

70.8

85.7

< 0.001

 % Male

42.9

37.8

42.5

44.7

49.8

41.1

< 0.001

 % Urban

36.7

34.8

39.3

37.4

35.7

35.8

0.027

Socioeconomic factors

 % 0 years of schooling

63.5

66.9

59.2

59.6

60.8

70.0

< 0.001

 % Economic independence

25.8

25.1

31.1

30.7

26.0

17.8

< 0.001

 % Professional occupation

9.4

8.2

10.5

10.9

7.9

8.0

< 0.001

 % Access to healthcare

92.4

86.7

90.4

92.8

95.0

94.5

< 0.001

Family/Social support

 % Married

32.7

32.0

37.0

38.2

36.8

23.3

< 0.001

 % Close proximity to children

87.3

84.3

86.9

87.1

88.1

88.7

< 0.001

Health practice

 % Doing regular exercise

27.3

28.1

30.2

30.7

28.9

28.3

< 0.001

 % Currently smoking

17.9

16.9

19.4

18.6

18.8

16.5

0.016

Health condition

 % ADL disabled

20.6

21.5

18.4

14.3

13.0

31.2

< 0.001

 % Cognitively impaired

44.3

42.2

39.9

36.5

36.9

58.6

< 0.001

 % Self-reported poor health

51.1

67.9

59.1

47.9

44.2

46.6

< 0.001

  1. Note: (1) NA not applicable. (2) Age was measured in mean, whereas all other variables were measured in percentage. (3) Except for the total sample whose unweighted proportion was calculated across sleep hours, unweighted percentages for all other variables were calculated within each sleep hour group. (4) Except for the variable death, all other variables were measured at baseline wave in 2008. (5) p values were based on chi-square tests (for categorical variables) except for mean age that was derived from analysis of variance