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Table 2 Hospitalisation of patients between 1st January 1967 and 31st December 2010 and contacts with Tibro Health Care Centre Sweden between 1st January 1998 and 31st December 2010 by patients with elevated and normal calcium concentrations 1995–2000, men and women

From: Quality of life and health care consumption in primary care patients with elevated serum calcium concentrations in - a prospective, case control, study

 

Patients with elevated calcium concentrations

Patients with normal calcium concentrations

Comparison between groups

 

Total

Men

Women

Total

Men

Women

Total p -value

Men p -value

Women p -value

Variables

Mean

Percentile

Mean

Percentile

Mean

Percentile

Mean

Percentile

Mean

Percentile

Mean

Percentile

   

Data from register

               

Number

127

 

28

 

99

 

254

 

56

 

198

    

Hospitalisation

               

Total occasion from 1967

11

2-21

14

2-33

10

2-20

8

2-18

7

1-14

9

2-19

0.017

0.002

n.s

Total days from 1967

75

6-179

82

4-214

73

7-178

58

4-146

39

3-98

63

6-161

n.s

0.006

n.s

Total occasion from 1995

7

2-13

11

2-29

7

1-12

5

1-11

5

1-11

6

1-11

0.029

0.015

n.s

Total days from 1995

51

3-128

61

4-154

48

2-128

37

3-77

26

3-63

41

3-79

n.s

0.018

n.s

Diagnoses per individual from 1968

               

Cancer

1.3

0-4

1.7

0-6.3

1.2

0-3

0.9

0-2.2

0.8

0-3.6

1

0-2

0.003

n.s

0.017

Psychiatric diseases

0.9

0-2

0.7

0-2.3

0.9

0-2

0.5

0-1

0.3

0-1.6

0.5

0-1

n.s

n.s

n.s

Cardiovascular diseases

3.0

0-9

4.8

0-16

2.5

0-7

2.4

0-6

2.3

0-8

2.4

0-6

n.s

n.s

n.s

Contact tibro HCC

               

Physician consultations

               

Per individual

18.0

3.0- 35.4

12.5

2.6- 24.6

19.6

2.6- 39.0

17.7

4.0- 37.5

16.0

4.0- 31.0

18.2

3.5- 38.0

n.s

n.s

n.s

Individuals visit psychosocial team

               

Number

13

 

4

 

9

 

14

 

1

 

13

 

n.s

0.02

n.s.

  1. Notes: Percentile, 10th and 90th percentile n.s = not significant, HCC = Health Care Centre.