Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics and their association with sarcopenia.
From: Community-based prevalence and associated factors of sarcopenia in the Vietnamese elderly
Total N = 632 n (%) | Sarcopenia | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Yes (n = 202; 32.0%) n (%) | No (n = 430; 68.0%) n (%) | p | ||
Age group (year) | ||||
60–69 | 394 (62.3) | 90 (44.6) | 304 (70.7) | < 0.001 |
70–79 | 192 (30.4) | 80 (39.6) | 112 (26.0) | |
≥ 80 | 46 (7.3) | 32 (15.8) | 14 (3.3) | |
Gender | ||||
Male | 200 (31.6) | 69 (34.2) | 131 (30.5) | 0.352 |
Female | 432 (68.4) | 133 (65.8) | 299 (69.5) | |
Ethnicity | ||||
Kinh | 553 (87.5) | 175 (86.6) | 378 (87.9) | 0.652 |
Others | 79 (12.5) | 27 (13.4) | 52 (12.1) | |
Education level | ||||
< High school | 420 (66.5) | 155 (76.7) | 265 (61.6) | < 0.001 |
≥ High school | 212 (33.5) | 47 (23.3) | 165 (38.4) | |
Employment | ||||
Yes | 153 (24.2) | 29 (14.4) | 124 (28.8) | < 0.001 |
No | 479 (75.8) | 173 (85.6) | 306 (71.2) | |
Co-habitation | ||||
With relative | 599 (94.8) | 187 (92.6) | 412 (95.8) | 0.088 |
Alone | 33 (5.2) | 15 (7.4) | 18 (4.2) | |
Low family economics | ||||
Yes | 84 (13.3) | 43 (21.3) | 41 (9.5) | < 0.001 |
No | 548 (86.7) | 159 (78.7) | 389 (90.5) | |
Smoking | ||||
Yes | 75 (11.9) | 31 (15.3) | 44 (10.2) | 0.064 |
No | 557 (88.1) | 171 (84.7) | 386 (89.8) | |
Drinking alcohol | ||||
Yes | 32 (5.1) | 9 (4.5) | 23 (5.3) | 0.633 |
No | 600 (94.9) | 193 (95.5) | 407 (94.7) | |
