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Table 1 Age, pain level and selected chronic conditions by gender

From: Association between multimorbidity patterns and chronic pain in elderly primary care patients: a cross-sectional observational study

 

Females

n = 1891 (59.3 %)

Males

n = 1298 (40.7 %)

p

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

  1. sd standard deviation; a out of a list of 46 chronic conditions