Table 1 Baseline participant characteristics (stratified by self-rated physical and mental health).
From: Self-rated physical health predicts mortality in aging persons beyond objective health risks
Overall | Self-rated physical health | Self-rated mental health | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Good | Bad | p-value | Good | Bad | p-value | ||
n | 15,010 | 11,922 | 3069 | 12,356 | 2637 | ||
Age (M, SD) | 55.01 (11.10) | 54.69 (11.19) | 56.21 (10.70) | < 0.001 | 55.13 (11.22) | 54.43 (10.54) | 0.004 |
Sex (male) (%) | 7584 (50.5) | 6189 (51.9) | 1384 (45.1) | < 0.001 | 6594 (53.4) | 980 (37.2) | < 0.001 |
Married (yes) (%) | 11,144 (74.3) | 9034 (75.8) | 2105 (68.6) | < 0.001 | 9447 (76.5) | 1694 (64.2) | < 0.001 |
Living alone (yes) (%) | 2828 (18.9) | 2059 (17.3) | 767 (25.0) | < 0.001 | 2058 (16.7) | 769 (29.2) | < 0.001 |
Socioeconomic status (M, SD) | 12.89 (4.48) | 13.22 (4.45) | 11.58 (4.35) | < 0.001 | 13.09 (4.50) | 11.94 (4.28) | < 0.001 |
PHQ-9 > = 10 (yes) (%) | 1133 (7.7) | 467 (4.0) | 666 (22.5) | < 0.001 | 311 (2.6) | 821 (32.1) | < 0.001 |
GAD-2 > = 3 (yes) (%) | 966 (6.6) | 470 (4.0) | 496 (16.9) | < 0.001 | 275 (2.3) | 690 (27.2) | < 0.001 |
Loneliness (yes) (%) | 2495 (17.0) | 1589 (13.6) | 905 (30.7) | < 0.001 | 1503 (12.4) | 990 (39.0) | < 0.001 |
Smoking (pack-years) (M, SD) | 4.89 (11.37) | 4.42 (10.58) | 6.70 (13.91) | < 0.001 | 4.71 (11.11) | 5.70 (12.50) | < 0.001 |
Body mass index (M, SD) | 27.38 (5.02) | 26.88 (4.60) | 29.29 (6.05) | < 0.001 | 27.28 (4.88) | 27.85 (5.62) | < 0.001 |
Social support (BS6) (M, SD) | 20.45 (3.68) | 20.76 (3.46) | 19.23 (4.23) | < 0.001 | 20.85 (3.40) | 18.55 (4.31) | < 0.001 |
Chronic diseases (%) | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | |||||
0 | 5918 (39.4) | 5071 (42.5) | 834 (27.2) | 4934 (39.9) | 972 (36.9) | ||
1 | 5553 (37.0) | 4476 (37.5) | 1072 (34.9) | 4607 (37.3) | 941 (35.7) | ||
2 | 2190 (14.6) | 1586 (13.3) | 603 (19.6) | 1774 (14.4) | 416 (15.8) | ||
3 | 865 (5.8) | 543 (4.6) | 322 (10.5) | 679 (5.5) | 186 (7.1) | ||
> = 4 | 484 (3.2) | 246 (2.1) | 238 (7.8) | 362 (2.9) | 122 (4.6) | ||
Death = 1 (%) | 1254 (8.4) | 851 (7.1) | 398 (13.0) | < 0.001 | 1027 (8.3) | 222 (8.4) | 0.887 |
