(c) Medical history of patients in the included studies
| First Author | Hypertension (%) | Diabetes Mellitus (%) | CAD (%) | Stroke (%) | NYHA III-IV (%) | COPD (%) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nonagenarian group | control group | nonagenarian group | control group | nonagenarian group | control group | nonagenarian group | control group | nonagenarian group | control group | nonagenarian group | control group | |
| Yamamoto et al. | 73 | 76 | 23 | 25 | NR | NR | NR | NR | 65 | 64 | 19 | 30 |
| Arsalan et al. | 86.56 | 89.26 | 19.35 | 40.39 | NR | NR | 9.33 | 12.77 | 80.97 | 81.37 | 15.4 | 30.1 |
| Ramkumar et al. | 57 | 81 | 14 | 26 | 22 | 20 | 9 | 17 | 74 | 69 | 27 | 23 |
| Miura et al. | 72 | 71.3 | 4 | 26.4 | 20 | 44.8 | 4 | 15.1 | 72 | 63.2 | 12 | 17.2 |
| Scholtz et al. | 82.9 | 79.6 | 11 | 22.1 | 50.1 | 57 | NR | NR | NR | NR | 15.9 | 14.5 |
CAD: coronary artery disease; COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.