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. 2021 Jun 25;49(5):889–905. doi: 10.1007/s15010-021-01599-5

Table 2.

Patient demographics

Variablea Overall n = 60 109 Sex
Female n = 25 468 Male n = 34 641 P value
Age (years): median [IQR] 70 [54, 82] 72 [55, 83] 68 [54, 80]  < 0.001
Age bands (years)  < 0.001
 0–10 514 (0.9) 221 (0.9) 293 (0.8)
 10–20 522 (0.9) 221 (0.9) 301 (0.9)
 20–30 1972 (3.3) 872 (3.4) 1100 (3.2)
 30–40 3209 (5.3) 1450 (5.7) 1759 (5.1)
 40–50 5013 (8.3) 1966 (7.7) 3047 (8.8)
 50–60 8581 (14.3) 3280 (12.9) 5301 (15.3)
 60–70 9874 (16.4) 3701 (14.5) 6173 (17.8)
 70–80 12,333 (20.5) 4916 (19.3) 7417 (21.4)
 80–90 13,483 (22.4) 6196 (24.3) 7287 (21.0)
 ≥90 4608 (7.7) 2645 (10.4) 1963 (5.7)
Region  < 0.001
 East Asia and Pacific 3252 (5.4) 1117 (4.4) 2135 (6.2)
 Europe and Central Asia 55,401 (92.2) 23,749 (93.3) 31,652 (91.4)
 Latin America and Caribbean 162 (0.3) 67 (0.3) 95 (0.3)
 Middle East and North Africa 91 (0.2) 35 (0.1) 56 (0.2)
 North America 926 (1.5) 413 (1.6) 513 (1.5)
 South Asia 267 (0.4) 83 (0.3) 184 (0.5)
 Sub-Saharan Africa 10 (0.0) 4 (0.0) 6 (0.0)
Country income classificationb  < 0.001
 High income 54,836 (91.2) 23,420 (92.0) 31,416 (90.7)
 Upper middle income 5003 (8.3) 1964 (7.7) 3039 (8.8)
 Lower middle or low income 270 (0.4) 84 (0.3) 185 (0.5)

IQR interquartile range

aData are number (percent within columns) unless specified otherwise

bAccording to World Bank classification [25]