TABLE 2.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients according to the presence or absence of dementia.

	With dementia	Without dementia	p-value
N° of patients	23	46
Males, N° (%)	14 (60.9%)	28 (60.9%)	1
Age, years, median (IQR)	82 (75.5;85)	80 (75.5; 83.75)	0.62
N° (%) of patients in different age classes (years)
40–49	0	1 (2,3%)	1
50–59	2 (8.7%)	3 (6.5%)	1
60–69	1 (4.3%)	3 (6.5%)	1
70–80	5 (21.7%)	17 (36.9%)	0.27
>80	15 (65.2%)	22 (47.8%)	0.17
Charlson comorbidity index, median (IQR)	6 (5;7)	6 (4;6)	0.06
N° (%) of patients with Charlson index ≥ 2	23 (100%)	43 (93.5%)	0.54
N° (%) of patients with an underlying chronic disease (dementia)	23	44	0.55
With hypertension	13 (56.8%)	40 (86.9%)	0.004
With cardio-vascular disease	11 (47.8%)	21/45.6%)	0.86
With diabetes	4 (17.4%)	17 (36.9%)	0.16
With chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	8 (34.8%)	15 (32.6%)	0.86
With liver cirrhosis	0	2 (4.3%)	0.55
With malignancy	2 (8.7%)	6 (13%)	0.71

Bold value indicate our way to highlight statistically significant p-value.