Table 1 Baseline data for patients aged ≥45 years with diagnoses of AF and diabetes mellitus ( n = 2,413) in primary care attending the 75 PHCCs between January 1st2001 and December 31st2007
Men n = 1,319 | Women n = 1,094 | Sex difference | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All | Dead | All | Dead | All | Dead | |
n(%) | n(%) | n(%) | n(%) | p | p | |
Number of patients | 1,319 | 120 (9.1) | 1,094 | 145 (13.3) | 0.0012 | |
Age (years), mean (SD) | 71.7 (8.8) | 76.3 (8.5) | <0.001 | |||
Age (years), | <0.001 | |||||
45–54 | 36 (2.7) | 3 (8.3) | 11 (1.1) | 0 | 0.32 | |
55–64 | 257 (19.5) | 8 (3.1) | 102 (9.3) | 5 (4.9) | 0.41 | |
65–74 | 494 (37.5) | 26 (5.3) | 293 (26.8) | 13 (4.4) | 0.61 | |
75–79 | 265 (20.1) | 27 (10.2) | 246 (22.5) | 30 (12.2) | 0.47 | |
80–84 | 184 (14.0) | 37 (20.1) | 271 (24.8) | 47 (17.3) | 0.46 | |
≥85 | 83 (6.3) | 19 (22.9) | 171 (15.6) | 50 (29.2) | 0.29 | |
Educational level | <0.001 | |||||
Compulsory schooling | 559 (43.9) | 45 (8.1) | 582 (59.4) | 76 (13.1) | 0.0060 | |
Secondary schooling | 478 (37.5) | 42 (8.8) | 309 (31.5) | 25 (8.1) | 0.73 | |
College and/or university studies | 237 (18.6) | 21 (8.9) | 89 (9.1) | 7 (7.9) | 0.78 | |
Marital status | <0.001 | |||||
Married | 742 (46.5) | 63 (8.5) | 317 (29.1) | 32 (10.1) | 0.40 | |
Unmarried | 148 (11.3) | 9 (6.1) | 76 (7.0) | 10 (13.2) | 0.072 | |
Divorced | 229 (17.4) | 17 (7.4) | 151 (13.9) | 15 (9.9) | 0.39 | |
Widowed | 194 (14.8) | 30 (15.5) | 545 (50.1) | 85 (15.6) | 0.97 | |
Diagnosis | ||||||
Hypertension | 789 (59.8) | 53 (6.7) | 677 (61.9) | 70 (10.3) | 0.30 | 0.013 |
Coronary heart disease | 357 (27.1) | 28 (7.8) | 285 (26.1) | 46 (16.1) | 0.57 | 0.001 |
Chronic heart failure | 228 (17.3) | 38 (16.7) | 250 (22.9) | 46 (18.4) | 0.001 | 0.62 |
Valvular disease | 50 (3.8) | 6 (12.0) | 62 (5.7) | 14 (22.6) | 0.029 | 0.15 |
Cardiomyopathy | 15 (1.1) | 1 (6.7) | 9 (0.8) | 1 (11.1) | 0.44 | 0.62 |
Cerebrovascular diseases | 187 (14.2) | 15 (8.0) | 121 (11.1) | 18 (14.9) | 0.022 | 0.057 |