Sociodemographic and Lifestyle Statistics of Oldest Old People (>80 Years) Living in Ikaria Island: The Ikaria Study

Table 1

Socio- demographic characteristics of the 𝑛=187 oldest old (>80 yrs) people who participated in the Ikaria Study.

	Men	Women	𝑃
𝑁	89	98
% of people between 85–90 yrs	23.6	17.3	.28
% of people over >90 yrs	11.2	8.2	.49
Marital status, %			<.001
Never married	1.1	2.0
Married	87.7	40.9
Widowed	9.0	46.9
Divorced	2.2	10.2
Financial status, %			.39
Low	41.4	49.5
Moderate	35.6	36.1
Good	17.2	12.4
Very good	5.7	2.1
No. of own cars	0.8±0.7	0.3±0.5	.001
Members living within family (children, relatives)	3.1±1.6	2.6±1.9	.04
Sq meters of house or apartment	79±24	76±27	.53
% of people with own house or apartment	97	96	.81

Data are presented as mean ± SD or relative frequencies. 𝑃-values derived using the 𝑡-test or the chi-square test (for the categorical variables).