Table 1. Sample characteristics at baseline by patterns of CV and NP chronic diseases.
| No CV/NP diseases | 1 CV disease |
CV multim. | 1 NP disease |
NP multim. |
Mixed multim. | Complex multim. | Total N = 2,385 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEMOGRAPHICS | ||||||||
| Sex (female; N and %) | 944 (64.6) | 129 (53.8) | 70 (57.4) | 206 (71.3) | 83 (83.0) | 47 (66.2) | 65 (65.0) | 1,544 (64.8) |
| Age (years; mean ± SD) | 70.4 ± 9.5 | 76.7 ± 9.5 | 80.3 ± 8.4 | 73.7 ± 11.1 | 76.7 ± 10.3 | 79.2 ± 8.9 | 81.4 ± 9.3 | 72.9 ± 10.3 |
| Living in institution (N and %) | 2 (0.1) | 2 (0.8) | 2 (1.6) | 14 (4.8) | 17 (17.0) | 5 (7.0) | 14 (14.0) | 56 (2.4) |
| EDUCATION* | ||||||||
| Elementary (N and %) | 171 (11.7) | 43 (17.9) | 27 (22.0) | 52 (18.0) | 14 (14.0) | 17 (23.9) | 20 (20.0) | 344 (14.4) |
| High school (N and %) | 700 (47.9) | 119 (49.6) | 65 (53.3) | 135 (49.7) | 50 (50.0) | 38 (53.5) | 57 (57.0) | 1,164 (48.8) |
| University or more (N and %) | 591 (40.4) | 77 (32.1) | 30 (24.6) | 98 (33.9) | 35 (35.0) | 15 (21.0) | 21 (21.0) | 867 (36.4) |
| CLINICAL AND FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT | ||||||||
| Malnutrition** (N and %) | 22 (1.5) | 4 (1.7) | 1 (0.8) | 5 (1.7) | 1 (1.0) | 2 (2.8) | 4 (4.0) | 39 (1.6) |
| N diseases ¶ (mean ± SD) | 2.8 ± 1.7 | 4.6 ± 1.8 | 6.8 ± 2.2 | 4.1 ± 1.8 | 5.7 ± 1.9 | 5.7 ± 2.0 | 7.9 ± 2.0 | 3.8 ± 2.3 |
| N medications (mean ± SD) | 2.5 ± 2.5 | 5.2 ± 3.1 | 6.4 ± 3.7 | 4.1 ± 2.8 | 6.4 ± 3.7 | 5.5 ± 2.7 | 7.7 ± 3.8 | 3.7 ± 3.2 |
*9 missing values for education.
**Malnutrition defined as BMI < 18.5 kg/m2.
¶Number of diseases out of 60 different conditions, including CV and NP diseases, as grouped by Calderón-Larrañaga et al. [20].
Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; CV, cardiovascular; multim., multimorbidity; N, number; NP, neuropsychiatric; SD, standard deviation.