Table 1.

Sample sociodemographics of adults with and without the selected seven chronic conditions, TLSA 1996

	Hypertension		Heart disease		Stroke		Diabetes		Cancer		Lung disease		Arthritis
	No (n = 3787)	Yes (n = 1344)	No (n = 4388)	Yes (n = 743)	No (n = 4898)	Yes (n = 233)	No (n = 4572)	Yes (n = 559)	No (n = 5063)	Yes (n = 68)	No (n = 4634)	Yes (n = 497)	No (n = 4207)	Yes (n = 924)
Age (years)	65.50 ± 9.60	68.08 ± 8.77	65.60 ± 9.55	69.58 ± 8.10	65.97 ± 9.47	70.44 ± 7.96	66.07 ± 9.59	67.05 ± 8.24	66.17 ± 9.45	66.94 ± 9.59	65.82 ± 9.45	69.55 ± 8.84	65.74 ± 9.51	68.19 ± 8.93
Age
50–64	45.8	32.2	45.3	24.2	43.2	21.5	42.9	37.0	42.3	36.8	44.1	25.4	44.6	31.6
65–74	35.9	45.9	36.5	50.5	38.0	49.8	37.7	45.6	38.5	44.1	37.8	45.3	36.9	46.1
≧75	18.3	21.9	18.2	25.3	18.7	28.8	19.4	17.4	19.2	19.1	18.1	29.4	18.5	22.3
Gender
Men	55.5	49.1	55.1	46.0	53.2	66.1	54.6	47.4	53.8	55.9	52.5	65.79	56.8	40.3
Women	44.6	50.9	44.9	54.0	46.8	33.9	45.4	52.6	46.2	44.1	47.5	34.21	43.2	59.7
Education status
Without education	32.3	33.6	31.5	39.0	32.6	33.5	32.1	36.7	32.6	30.9	32.8	30.8	31.0	39.8
With education	67.7	66.4	68.5	61.0	67.4	66.5	67.9	63.3	67.4	69.1	67.2	69.2	69.0	60.2
Number of comorbidities	0.46 ± 0.71	0.96 ± 0.98	0.60 ± 0.78	1.33 ± 1.13	0.77 ± 0.95	1.55 ± 1.15	0.70 ± 0.90	1.10 ± 1.11	0.83 ± 1.01	1.22 ± 1.23	0.71 ± 0.91	1.13 ± 1.15	0.61 ± 0.85	0.95 ± 1.03
Depression status
Without depression	79.5	73.1	80.0	64.9	78.6	57.1	78.9	69.0	78.0	61.0	79.5	61.3	80.6	65.7
With depression	20.5	26.9	20.0	35.1	21.4	42.9	21.1	31.1	22.0	39.0	20.5	38.7	19.5	34.3
Physical disability score	1.81 ± 3.47	3.28 ± 4.55	1.93 ± 3.66	3.77 ± 4.45	1.85 ± 3.28	9.44 ± 6.56	2.01 ± 3.66	3.69 ± 4.82	2.16 ± 3.80	4.72 ± 5.50	2.03 ± 3.70	3.70 ± 4.68	1.91 ± 3.71	3.50 ± 4.14
Disease duration (years)		7.50 ± 7.41		7.65 ± 8.11		5.81 ± 5.63		7.86 ± 7.20		5.85 ± 8.27		10.02 ± 11.80		8.61 ± 8.92

Data are given as either % or means ± SD. Bold numbers indicate statistical significance (p < 0.05)