Cardiovascular disease and the risk of incident falls and mortality among adults aged ≥ 65 years presenting to the emergency department: a cohort study from national registry data in Denmark

Table 1 Descriptive characteristics of age and sex matched ED fall and non-fall groups

	(ED Fall)	(ED Non-fall)	P-value
N	41,146	41,146	-
Sex (Males)	0.33	0.33	1.00
Age^a (SD)	78.29(8.85)	78.20 (8.77)	0.14
Cardiovascular disease^b^,c	0.40	0.45	< 0.01
Hypertensive diseases	0.26	0.29	< 0.01
Ischaemic heart diseases	0.12	0.15	< 0.01
Atrial fibrillation and flutter	0.12	0.15	< 0.01
Other cardiac arrhythmias	0.02	0.03	< 0.01
Heart failure	0.06	0.08	< 0.01
Cerebrovascular diseases	0.11	0.11	1.00
Hypotension	0.02	0.02	1.00
Cardiovascular medication	0.78	0.42	0.07
Polypharmacy (5–10)	0.22	0.09	0.03
Excessive polypharmacy (> 10)	0.65	0.36	< 0.01
Fall history	0.20	0.14	< 0.01
Hip fractures	0.04	0.01	< 0.01
Hospitalisations	0.36	0.47	< 0.01

Data are presented as proportions unless indicated otherwise
^aMean (Standard Deviation)
^bProportion of CVD in ED Fall group for the analysis of New CVD in Appendices 3 and 4 was 0.47
^cProportion of CVD in ED Fall group for the sensitivity analysis in Appendices 7 and 8 was 0.40

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