Gender Differences between Multimorbidity and All-Cause Mortality among Older Adults

Table 1

Baseline characteristics by sex (SABE study, municipality of São Paulo, 2000).

	Female	Male	All	p value^a
Age, mean (SD)	72.76 (8.43)	73.50 (8.53)	73.06 (8.48)
Education: without	21.40	15.83	19.12	<0.001
Marital status: widow	42.07	10.25	29.02	<0.001
Living arrangement: living alone	16.80	7.61	13.04	<0.001
Self-rated health: fair/poor	55.27	51.34	53.66	0.09
Visual impairment: fair/poor/blind	61.49	53.07	58.04	0.003
Mini mental score: 12 or less	12.93	12.06	12.57	0.59
Hypertension	55.79	48.82	52.93	0.009
Musculoskeletal disorders	34.89	15.84	27.09	<0.001
Cardiovascular diseases	17.14	18.73	17.79	0.39
Diabetes mellitus	17.53	16.12	16.95	0.46
Mental disorders	17.40	12.58	15.43	0.01
Respiratory diseases	8.30	11.76	9.72	0.02

value of Rao–Scott chi-square test.