Table 1.
Participant characteristics stratified by sex
| Categorical Variables | Men (n = 35,065) | Women (27,624) | ||||
| Number | Column % | Number | Column % | |||
| Age Category | ||||||
| < 50 years | 5398 | 15.4 | 4586 | 16.6 | ||
| 50–59 years | 4408 | 12.6 | 2745 | 9.9 | ||
| 60–69 years | 5789 | 16.5 | 3587 | 13.0 | ||
| 70–79 years | 8187 | 23.3 | 5581 | 20.2 | ||
| 80 years | 11,283 | 32.2 | 11,125 | 40.3 | ||
| Hypertension | 9756 | 46.4 | 8234 | 46.3 | ||
| Chronic Heart Disease | 11,491 | 33.2 | 7651 | 28.1 | ||
| Diabetes | 8379 | 24.8 | 5364 | 20.1 | ||
| Chronic pulmonary disease | 5985 | 17.3 | 4449 | 16.3 | ||
| Chronic Kidney Disease | 5553 | 16.0 | 4583 | 16.8 | ||
| Cancer | 4197 | 12.1 | 3161 | 11.6 | ||
| Any chronic disease | 24,007 | 68.5 | 18,316 | 66.3 | ||
| Obesity | 3901 | 11.1 | 3561 | 12.9 | ||
| Mutually exclusive categories of obesity and chronic disease | ||||||
| Non obese, no chronic disease | 10,103 | 28.8 | 8259 | 29.9 | ||
| Obese, no chronic disease | 955 | 2.7 | 1049 | 3.8 | ||
| Non-obese, with chronic disease | 21,061 | 60.1 | 15,804 | 57.2 | ||
| Obese with chronic disease | 2946 | 8.4 | 2512 | 9.1 | ||
| In-hospital mortality within 28 days | 10,001 | 28.5 | 6407 | 23.2 | ||
| Discharged within 28 days | 20,388 | 58.1 | 17,625 | 63.8 | ||
| Remain in hospital after 28 days | 4676 | 13.3 | 3592 | 13.0 | ||
| Continuous Variables | Median | 25th percentile | 75th percentile | Median | 25th percentile | 75th percentile |
| Days in hospital until death | 9 | 4 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 16 |
| Days in hospital until discharge | 8 | 4 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 16 |