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Table 1 Characteristics of hip fracture survivors: total and stratified by cohabitation status

From: Impact of household characteristics on patient outcomes post hip fracture: a Welsh nationwide observational cohort study

Characteristics n (%)

All hip fracture

patients

N = 12,089

Hip fracture patients living alone

N = 6,771 (56.0%)

Hip fracture patients living with one co-resident

N = 5,318 (44.0%)

p*

Sex

 Women

8775 (72.6)

5308 (78.4)

3467 (65.2)

 &±ô³Ù; 0.001

Age, years

 Mean (SD)

81.1 (9.5)

83.1 (9.4)

78.5 (9.6)

 &±ô³Ù; 0.001

 50–64

749 (6.2)

316 (4.67)

433 (8.14)

 &±ô³Ù; 0.001

 65–79

3753 (31.0)

1579 (23.3)

2174 (40.9)

 &±ô³Ù; 0.001

 80 + 

7587 (62.7)

4876 (72.0)

2711 (51.0)

 &±ô³Ù; 0.001

Number of long-term conditions

 Mean (SD)

5.5 (3.0)

5.7 (2.9)

5.3 (3.1)

 &±ô³Ù; 0.001

 0

269 (2.2)

94 (1.4)

175 (3.3)

 &±ô³Ù; 0.001

 1

608 (5.0)

274 (4.0)

334 (6.3)

 &±ô³Ù; 0.001

 2

1020 (8.4)

509 (7.5)

511 (9.6)

 &±ô³Ù; 0.001

 3

1387 (11.5)

756 (11.2)

631 (11.9)

 &±ô³Ù; 0.001

 4 + 

8805 (72.8)

5138 (75.9)

3667 (69.0)

 &±ô³Ù; 0.001

Socioeconomic position, quintiles

 5 (least deprived)

2332 (19.3)

1181 (17.4)

1151 (21.6)

 &±ô³Ù; 0.001

 4

2341 (19.4)

1260 (18.6)

1081 (20.3)

 &±ô³Ù; 0.001

 3

2503 (20.7)

1384 (20.4)

1119 (21.0)

 &±ô³Ù; 0.001

 2

2539 (21.0)

1531 (22.6)

1008 (18.9)

 &±ô³Ù; 0.001

 1 (most deprived)

2374 (19.6)

1415 (20.9)

959 (18.0)

 &±ô³Ù; 0.001

  1. *Obtained from chi-squared or analysis of variance (ANOVA) as appropriate, test between living alone and living with one co-resident