Table 1 Patient characteristics
| Â | Â | Â | Number of other chronic conditions | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|  | Sample | no | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 ≤ | ||||||||
| Â | DMP | RC | DMP | RC | DMP | RC | DMP | RC | DMP | RC | DMP | RC | DMP | RC | DMP | RC |
N | 865 | 534 | 66 | 40 | 189 | 111 | 214 | 140 | 178 | 91 | 93 | 64 | 60 | 42 | 65 | 46 |
Age (mean) | 70.2 | 70.5 | 72.4 | 68.6* | 69.2 | 69.6 | 69.8 | 71.3 | 70,4 | 70,9 | 69.5 | 70.8 | 71.8 | 70.7 | 72.2 | 71.8 |
Age (SD) | ±8.3 | ±8.9 | ±8.0 | ±7.7 | ±8.0 | ±9.3 | ±8.5 | ±8.5 | ±8,2 | ±8,9 | ±7.6 | ±7.8 | ±9.0 | ±10.4 | ±8.9 | ±8.7 |
Female subjects (%) | 53.8 | 53.4 | 53.0 | 55.0 | 55.6 | 47.7 | 57.9 | 58.9 | 51,7 | 59,3 | 47.3 | 50.0 | 56.7 | 40.5 | 44.6 | 56.5 |
Education ≤9 years (%) | 70.8 | 72.3 | 76.7 | 81.1 | 75.9 | 75.5 | 75.0 | 79.6 | 74,7 | 85.7* | 76.1 | 76.7 | 76.8 | 86.1 | 79.7 | 79.1 |
Living in partnership (%) | 65.7 | 62.9 | 55.4 | 52.6 | 64.9 | 64.2 | 61.9 | 62.0 | 66,7 | 52.8* | 63.7 | 63.5 | 52.6 | 61.9 | 64.1 | 51.1 |
BMI (mean) | 30.3 | 30.3 | 29.1 | 30.3 | 29.4 | 30.2 | 30.5 | 29.3 | 30,7 | 30,4 | 31.3 | 30.1 | 31.0 | 33.2 | 30.2 | 31.4 |
BMI (SD) | ±5.8 | ±6.5 | ±5.2 | ±5.2 | ±5.0 | ±6.1 | ±5.7 | ±6.1 | ±6,6 | ±7,5 | ±5.7 | ±5.7 | ±6.6 | ±7.4 | ±6.0 | ±7.2 |
Hypertension (%) | 71.3 | 72.1 | ------ | ------ | 24.3 | 20.7 | 62.1 | 63.6 | 74,2 | 73,6 | 77.4 | 82.8 | 91.7 | 69.0 | 87.7 | 91.3 |
Osteoarthrosis (%) | 57.2 | 56.7 | ------ | ------ | 57.7 | 49.5 | 79.0 | 77.9 | 83,7 | 89,0 | 87.1 | 90.6 | 85.0 | 90.5* | 89.2 | 95.7 |
Coronary heart (%) | 20.9 | 20.4 | ------ | ------ | 0.5 | 7.2* | 7.0 | 7.1 | 24,2 | 17,6 | 50.5 | 42.2 | 51.7 | 40.5 | 67.7 | 67.4 |
Heart failure (%) | 16.9 | 18.0 | ------ | ------ | 3.7 | 2.7 | 9.3 | 5.7 | 17,4 | 13,2 | 32.3 | 32.8 | 48.3 | 50.0 | 44.6 | 67.4* |
COPD (%) | 9.9 | 10.9 | ------ | ------ | 0.5 | 3.6* | 4.2 | 3.6 | 10,7 | 9,9 | 25.8 | 25.0 | 13.3 | 16.7 | 38.5 | 37.0 |
Cancer (%) | 7.6 | 9.0 | ------ | ------ | 3.2 | 1.8 | 5.6 | 4.3 | 6,7 | 11,0 | 16.1 | 17.2 | 13.3 | 4.8 | 20.0 | 37.0 |
Previous heart attack (%) | 7.1 | 8.2 | ------ | ------ | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 6.4* | 8,4 | 8,8 | 18.3 | 10.9 | 11.7 | 19.0 | 29.2 | 26.1 |
Previous stroke (%) | 6.0 | 6.6 | ------ | ------ | 1.1 | 2.7 | 3.7 | 2.1 | 9,0 | 7,7 | 6.5 | 12.5 | 15.0 | 11.9 | 16.9 | 19.6 |
Asthma (%) | 4.2 | 4.5 | ------ | ------ | 0.0 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 7,3 | 2,2 | 4.3 | 4.7 | 11.7 | 26.2 | 13.8 | 10.9 |