Table 2.

Mean number of contacts/year with physicians according to degree of morbidity, age group and sex among the elderly aged 65 years and more

	non-multimorbid sample					multimorbid sample
	mean all	SD all	male mean	female mean	p-value	mean all	SD all	male mean	female mean	p-value
65-69 years	14.6	14.4	13.8	15.9	< 0.001	34.1	23.9	33.4	35.0	< 0.001
70-74 years	16.2	15.7	15.9	16.8	0.004	35.9	24.1	35.9	35.9	0.835
75-79 years	18.2	17.5	18.1	18.3	0.615	38.5	25.0	38.9	37.9	0.009
≥ 80 years	20.6	19.4	20.1	21.0	0.120	39.3	25.4	40.2	38.6	< 0.001
All	15.9	15.7	15.2	17.1	< 0.001	36.3	24.5	36.0	36.6	< 0.001

SD = standard deviation

p = statistical significance of difference between women and men.