Table I.

Characteristics of patients 50 years of age and older with hypertension and/or cancer diagnoses, contacts and HCCs in the Skaraborg Primary Care Database (SPCD) for the different time periods.¹

Time period	051001–060930	061001–070930	071001–080930	081001–090930	091001–100930
Characteristics of the 22 HCCs:
Patients (n)	76 546	78 350	79 007	79 826	77 805
Median	3186	3456	3535	3470	3310
Range	1226–7699	1241–7687	1207–7789	1242–7962	1276–7319
Physicians (n)	554	489	589	627	468
Median	19	17	23	23	20
Range	3–77	4–71	5–87	5–81	8–42
Characteristics of patients:
Age (years)
Mean	68.0	68.0	68.1	68.1	68.3
Range	50–106	50–107	50–108	50–108	50–109
Sex
Female	42 266 (55%)	43 181 (55%)	43 327 (55%)	43 632 (55%)	42 436 (55%)
Male	34 264 (45%)	35 156 (45%)	35 664 (45%)	36 182 (45%)	35 355 (45%)
Hypertension	12 752 (17%)	12 876 (16%)	14 290 (18%)	20 387 (26%)	25 478 (33%)
Age (years)
Mean	70.6	70.6	70.8	71.1	71.6
Range	50–102	50–99	50–101	50–102	50–104
Sex
Female	7256 (17%)	7293 (17%)	7975 (18%)	11 318 (26%)	13 975 (33%)
Male	5496 (16%)	5583 (16%)	6313 (18%)	9067 (25%)	11 502 (33%)
Cancer	1082 (1.4%)	1007 (1.3%)	1203 (1.5%)	2030 (2.5%)	3061 (3.9%)
Age (years)
Mean	74.8	74.9	75.5	75.6	75.5
Range	50–100	50–101	50–101	50–103	50–101
Sex
Female	490 (1.2%)	451 (1.0%)	556 (1.3%)	917 (2.1%)	1346 (3.2%)
Male	592 (1.7%)	556 (1.6%)	647 (1.8%)	1113 (3.1%)	1715 (4.9%)
Characteristics of contacts:
Direct (n)	125 346	121 802	125 196	126 066	123 900
Diagnosed (%)	77%	80%	86%	89%	93%
Indirect (n)	276 740	293 661	316 462	319 891	313 162
Diagnosed (%)	13%	13%	13%	17%	24%
Diagnoses (n)	173 783	178 608	196 764	246 341	327 781

¹Values are number of patients/physicians/contacts (percentage) if not otherwise indicated.