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Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2008 Nov 3;57(1):94–100. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2008.02052.x

Table 1.

Cohort Characteristics at Baseline Stratified by Subsequent Mortality.

Baseline Characteristics	Died n = 377	Survived n = 612	p-value
Age (mean) [± SD]	78.7 [5.5]	74.9 [4.1]	<0.001^* ^‡
Women (%)	58.0	68.1	0.304 ^†
High school or higher education (%)	52.5	68.5	0.001^* ^†
Recruitment status (volunteer %)	11.9	25.3	<0.001^* ^†
MMSE (mean) [± SD]	26.1 [3.3]	27.7 [2.0]	<0.001 ^‡
Depressive symptoms (mCES-D ≥ 5 %)	8.1	6.1	<0.001^* ^†
Dementia prevalent and incident cases (%)	44.0	16.0	<0.001^* ^†
Cardiovascular disease (%)	41.1	27.8	<0.001^* ^†
Cerebrovascular disease (%)	14.1	6.1	<0.001^* ^†
Diabetes mellitus (%)	15.9	7.0	<0.001^* ^†
Hypertension (%)	44.4	45.7	0.700 ^†

^*

Significant at p < 0.01;

^†

chi-square test;

^‡

Wilcoxon Rank Sums non-parametric test