Table 1.
Characteristics of the study population at the stroke by number of children (N = 70 149)
| Men (n = 33 960) | Women (n = 36 189) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of children | 0 (n = 6942) | 1 (n = 7221) | 2 (n = 10 504) | ≥3 (n = 9293) | 0 (n = 6722) | 1 (n = 8430) | 2 (n = 10 905) | ≥3 (n = 10 132) | |||
| Person-yearsa | 32 995 | 36 654 | 58 705 | 51 532 | 31 070 | 43 112 | 61 228 | 56 527 | |||
| Deathsa | 6069 | 6168 | 8603 | 7638 | 5944 | 7140 | 8891 | 8278 | |||
| Median survival (years)a | 3.73 | 4.19 | 4.89 | 4.84 | 3.56 | 4.25 | 5.05 | 4.90 | |||
| Mean age (years) (SD) | 77.6 (6.2) | 78.0 (6.1) | 77.1 (6.3) | 76.8 (6.3) | 80.3 (6.0) | 79.7 (6.0) | 79.0 (6.1) | 78.8 (6.2) | |||
| Marital status | |||||||||||
| Married (%) | 35.7 | 65.9 | 72.6 | 70.2 | 21.5 | 31.3 | 37.1 | 33.3 | |||
| Never married (%) | 42.8 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 29.5 | 3.7 | 0.7 | 0.5 | |||
| Divorced (%) | 6.3 | 10.0 | 9.3 | 13.0 | 6.9 | 10.8 | 9.9 | 12.4 | |||
| Widowed (%) | 15.2 | 21.3 | 17.5 | 16.4 | 42.1 | 54.2 | 52.3 | 53.8 | |||
| Education | |||||||||||
| Basic (%) | 69.7 | 62.2 | 57.3 | 61.6 | 64.8 | 72.9 | 70.5 | 75.0 | |||
| Gymnasium (%) | 24.0 | 28.9 | 30.7 | 26.3 | 25.4 | 22.6 | 24.1 | 20.0 | |||
| Tertiary (%) | 6.3 | 9.0 | 12.0 | 12.2 | 9.7 | 4.5 | 5.4 | 5.0 | |||
| Born in Sweden (%) | 96.8 | 97.3 | 97.2 | 96.4 | 95.1 | 95.8 | 96.2 | 95.1 | |||
| Charlson comorbidity index score | |||||||||||
| 0 (%) | 63.3 | 64.0 | 63.7 | 64.0 | 65.7 | 65.6 | 67.4 | 65.0 | |||
| 1 (%) | 21.6 | 20.0 | 21.3 | 20.1 | 21.1 | 21.4 | 19.9 | 22.0 | |||
| ≥2 (%) | 15.2 | 16.0 | 15.0 | 15.9 | 13.2 | 13.0 | 12.6 | 13.0 | |||
| Hospitalization length | |||||||||||
| 0–3 days (%) | 25.4 | 28.8 | 30.7 | 29.7 | 24.2 | 24.4 | 26.4 | 26.1 | |||
| 4–7 days (%) | 25.6 | 26.3 | 26.8 | 27.2 | 23.7 | 25.4 | 26.3 | 26.3 | |||
| 8–14 days (%) | 23.7 | 22.4 | 21.1 | 22.1 | 24.2 | 23.9 | 23.7 | 23.4 | |||
| >14 days (%) | 25.3 | 22.5 | 21.5 | 21.0 | 27.9 | 26.3 | 23.7 | 24.2 | |||
Notes: Differences between groups were statistically significant for all variables (P ≤ 0.001 for χ2-tests or ANOVA) except for Charlson comorbidity index score (P = 0.06 among men and P = 0.007 among women).
a
Person-years, survival and number of deaths presented for whole study period.