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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 2.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Aug 2;4(8):e2120616. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.20616

Table 2.

List of the Incident First Unhealthy Aging Events among 2680 CHS Participants

First incident unhealthy aging event Number of events
Incident Cardiovascular diseasea 880
Increase in difficulties of activities of daily livingb 680
Incident Cancer 403
Cognitive declinec 376
Incident chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 133
Incident Kidney diseased 12
No event 196
a

defined as myocardial infarction, heart failure, stroke, transient ischemic attack or claudication.

b

first record of difficulty with ≥1 activity of daily living.

c

first Mini Mental State Examination score ≤80.

d

defined as estimated glomerular filtration rate <10 or dialysis.