Table 1.
Baseline characteristics for patients aged ≥ 45 years with diagnoses of AF (N = 12,283), and with or without dementia in primary care attending the 75 PHCCs between January 1, 2001 and December 31, 2007
| Men (N = 6646) | Women (N = 5637) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No dementia | Dementia | Difference | No dementia | Dementia | Difference | |
| N = 6258 | N = 388 | Age-adjusted | N = 5088 | N = 549 | Age-adjusted | |
| Numbers (%) | Numbers (%) | p values | Numbers (%) | Numbers (%) | p values | |
| Number of deaths | 1723 (27.5) | 260 (67.0) | < 0.001 | 1631 (32.1) | 340 (61.9) | < 0.001 |
| Age (years), mean (SD) | 71.7 (10.2) | 78.9 (6.8) | < 0.001 | 76.6 (9.4) | 82.0 (6.2) | < 0.001 |
| Age groups (years) | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | ||||
| 45–54 | 369 (5.9) | 1 (0.3) | 105 (2.1) | 0 (0.0) | ||
| 55–64 | 1209 (19.3) | 13 (3.4) | 513 (10.1) | 8 (1.5) | ||
| 65–74 | 1974 (31.5) | 68 (17.5) | 1222 (24.0) | 44 (8.0) | ||
| 75–79 | 1143 (18.3) | 114 (29.4) | 1062 (20.9) | 108 (19.7) | ||
| 80–84 | 975 (15.6) | 108 (27.8) | 1169 (23.0) | 195 (35.5) | ||
| ≥ 85 | 588 (9.4) | 84 (21.7) | 1017 (20.0) | 194 (35.3) | ||
| Educational level | 0.70 | 0.10 | ||||
| Compulsory schooling | 2335 (39.3) | 151 (42.9) | 2336 (52.0) | 263 (57.8) | ||
| Secondary schooling | 2241 (37.7) | 126 (35.8) | 1493 (33.2) | 135 (29.7) | ||
| College and/or university studies | 1362 (22.9) | 75 (21.3) | 667 (14.8) | 57 (12.5) | ||
| Marital status | 0.99 | 0.43 | ||||
| Married | 3719 (59.7) | 231 (59.7) | 1550 (30.6) | 113 (20.7) | ||
| Unmarried | 613 (9.8) | 17 (4.4) | 366 (7.2) | 33 (6.1) | ||
| Divorced | 974 (15.6) | 47 (12.1) | 730 (14.4) | 62 (11.4) | ||
| Widowed | 928 (14.9) | 92 (23.8) | 2420 (47.8) | 337 (61.8) | ||
| Neighborhood SES | 0.55 | 0.36 | ||||
| High | 2487 (39.7) | 169 (43.6) | 1734 (34.1) | 214 (39.0) | ||
| Middle | 2860 (45.7) | 170 (43.8) | 2505 (49.2) | 272 (49.5) | ||
| Low | 911 (14.6) | 49 (12.6) | 849 (16.7) | 63 (11.5) | ||
| Diagnosis | ||||||
| Hypertension | 2577 (41.2) | 149 (38.4) | 0.53 | 2504 (49.2) | 219 (39.9) | < 0.001 |
| Coronary heart disease | 1594 (25.5) | 128 (33.0) | 0.23 | 1357 (26.7) | 155 (28.2) | 0.28 |
| Congestive heart failure | 2637 (42.1) | 219 (56.4) | 0.042 | 2476 (48.7) | 352 (64.1) | 0.001 |
| Cerebrovascular diseases | 1149 (18.4) | 128 (33.0) | < 0.001 | 1137 (22.4) | 152 (27.7) | 0.21 |
| Obesity | 346 (5.5) | 6 (1.6) | 0.14 | 253 (5.0) | 9 (1.6) | 0.11 |
| Diabetes mellitus | 1653 (26.4) | 109 (28.1) | 0.096 | 1799 (33.4) | 188 (34.2) | 0.54 |
| COPD | 677 (10.8) | 33 (8.5) | 0.049 | 637 (12.5) | 69 (12.6) | 0.40 |
| Depression | 369 (5.9) | 43 (11.1) | < 0.001 | 550 (10.8) | 77 (14.0) | 0.009 |
| Anxiety | 168 (2.7) | 15 (3.9) | 0.23 | 273 (5.4) | 40 (7.3) | 0.033 |
Information on educational level and marital status is missing for some individuals