Females n = 1891 (59.3 %) | Males n = 1298 (40.7 %) | p | |
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Age: mean ± sd | 74.7 ± 5.3 years | 74.0 ± 5.1 years | < 0.001 |
Graded Chronic Pain Scale: summary score | < 0.001 | ||
Pain free | 15.3 % | 29.6 % | |
Low disability - low intensity | 40.4 % | 41.8 % | |
Low disability - high intensity | 21.6 % | 13.2 % | |
High disability - moderately limiting | 12.4 % | 9.4 % | |
High disability - severely limiting | 10.4 % (n = 1860) | 6.0 % (n = 1274) | |
Number of chronic conditiona: mean ± sd | 7.0 ± 2.4 | 7.1 ± 2.5 | 0.068 |
Prevalence of chronic conditions | |||
Chronic low back pain | 55.2 % | 41.1 % | < 0.001 |
Joint arthrosis | 48.9 % | 35.3 % | < 0.001 |
Chronic ischemic heart disease | 22.2 % | 44.7 % | < 0.001 |
Depression | 22.6 % | 10.6 % | < 0.001 |
Hyperuricemia/Gout | 12.9 % | 23.7 % | < 0.001 |
Neuropathies | 13.0 % | 17.3 % | 0.001 |
Intestinal diverticulosis | 15.5 % | 13.0 % | 0.051 |
Cardiac insufficiency | 11.8 % | 15.0 % | 0.009 |
Chronic gastritis/Gastroesophageal reflux | 13.6 % | 11.9 % | 0.153 |