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Published in final edited form as: Arch Intern Med. 2008 Feb 11;168(3):277–283. doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2007.75

Table 3.

Prevalence of Morbidities by Sex and Age at Onset Categories^a

	Men			Women

	Age at Onset			Age at Onset

Morbidity	<85 y, No. (%) (n=58)	≥ 85 y, No. (%) (n=158)	P Value	<85 y, No. (%) (n=176)	≥85 y, No. (%) (n=347)	P Value
COPD	7(12)	12(8)	.45	8(5)	3(1)	.01
Dementia	11 (19)	29 (18)	>.99	57 (32)	103(30)	.60
Diabetes	9(16)	8 (5)	.02	17(10)	12(3)	.006
Heart disease	38 (66)	45 (28)	<.001	105 (60)	103 (30)	<.001
Hypertension	32 (55)	23 (15)	<.001	116(66)	90 (26)	<.001
Osteoporosis	3(5)	16 (10)	.39	70 (40)	78 (22)	<.001
Parkinson disease	2 (3)	0	NA	3(2)	4(1)	.91
Stroke	14(24)	16 (10)	.02	35 (20)	41 (12)	.02

Abbreviations: COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; NA, not applicable.

^a

These are not mutually exclusive categories.