TABLE 1—

Characteristics by Gender for Pregnancy and Later Life Ambulatory Limitation: Hispanic Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (H-EPESE) Data, Southwestern States, 2000–2001

Characteristic	Men (n = 541), Mean or %	Women (n = 867), Mean or %
Age, y	78.9	79.4
Foreign born	45.5	39.6
≤ high school education	89.3	90.9
Chronic conditions and disability,
Diabetes	22.9	28.7*
Stroke	4.6	3.5
Arthritis	45.8	59.9***
Always incontinent	3.0	3.9
Always, most of the time, or sometimes incontinent	19.0	22.8
Osteoporosis	1.9	14.4***
Cardiac failure	19.9	19.7
Gravidity by tertilea
0–4	…	42.6
5–7		24.8
8–20		32.6
Number of children by tertilea
0–3	…	43.0
4–5		24.3
6–18		32.4
Hysterectomya	…	30.3
Physical function
Best performance in the seated chair rise	30.3	21.3***
Poor performance in the seated chair rise	17.2	22.6*
Unable to perform the seated chair rise	17.0	22.3*
Best performance in the timed walk	27.7	19.6***
Poor performance in the timed walk	6.1	9.0
Unable to perform the timed walk	12.8	18.0*

^aData from wave 2 of the H-EPESE (1995–1996).

*P ≤ .05; ***P ≤ .001. P values were determined by the t-test or χ² difference of means test.