Table 1 Participant characteristics according to fall experiences within the past year
From: Physical exercise habits are related with reduced prevalence of falling among elderly women in China
All participants | p value1 | Participants with exercise habits | p value1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n = 1429 | n = 833 | |||||
Fall experience | Fall experience | |||||
No | Yes | No | Yes | |||
n (%) | 1215 (85.0) | 214 (15.0) | 725 (87.0) | 108 (13.0) | ||
Age | 69.6 (69.2, 70.0)2 | 66.7 (65.7, 67.6) | < 0.001 | 68.7 (68.3, 69.2) | 63.9 (62.7, 65.1) | < 0.001 |
BMI | 24.1 (24.0, 24.3) | 24.8 (24.4, 25.2) | 0.002 | 24.5 (24.3, 24.6) | 24.2 (23.7, 24.7) | 0.359 |
Former occupation (n; %) | ||||||
White color | 202 (16.6) | 34 (15.9) | 0.842 | 154 (21.2) | 26 (24.1) | 0.531 |
Blue color | 1013 (83.4) | 180 (84.1) | 571 (78.8) | 82 (75.9) | ||
Smoking (n; %) | ||||||
Smoker | 31 (2.6) | 0 (0) | 0.010 | 25 (3.4) | 0 (0) | 0.063 |
Non-smoker | 1184 (97.4) | 214 (100) | 700 (96.6) | 108 (100) | ||
Alcohol drinking (n; %) | ||||||
Drinking everyday | 16 (1.3) | 0 (0) | < 0.001 | 13 (1.8) | 0 (0) | < 0.001 |
Drinking occasionally | 31 (2.6) | 40 (18.7) | 22 (3.0) | 32 (29.6) | ||
Non-drinker | 1168 (96.1) | 174 (81.3) | 690 (95.2) | 76 (70.4) | ||
Household Income (n; %) | ||||||
Low | 448 (36.9) | 68 (31.8) | 0.165 | 182 (25.1) | 24 (22.2) | 0.116 |
Middle | 367 (30.2) | 70 (32.7) | 253 (34.9) | 32 (29.6) | ||
High | 400 (32.9) | 76 (35.5) | 290 (40.0) | 52 (48.1) | ||
Living alone (n; %) | ||||||
Yes | 104 (8.6) | 12 (5.6) | 0.174 | 32 (4.4) | 0 (0) | 0.016 |
No | 1111 (91.4) | 202 (94.4) | 693 (95.6) | 108 (100) | ||
Educational level (n; %) | ||||||
≥ High school | 264 (21.7) | 46 (21.5) | 1.000 | 112 (15.4) | 14 (13.0) | 0.567 |
< High school | 951 (78.3) | 168 (78.5) | 613 (84.6) | 94 (87.0) | ||
Hypertension (n; %) | ||||||
Yes | 718 (59.1) | 120 (56.1) | 0.409 | 422 (58.2) | 62 (57.4) | 0.917 |
No | 497 (40.9) | 94 (43.9) | 303 (41.8) | 46 (42.6) | ||
Diabetes (n; %) | ||||||
Yes | 198 (16.3) | 58 (27.1) | < 0.001 | 86 (11.9) | 34 (31.5) | < 0.001 |
No | 1017 (83.7) | 156 (72.9) | 639 (88.1) | 74 (68.5) | ||
Depression (n; %) | ||||||
Yes | 511 (42.1) | 89 (41.6) | 0.940 | 249 (34.3) | 36 (33.3) | 0.914 |
No | 704 (57.9) | 125 (58.4) | 476 (65.7) | 72 (66.7) | ||