Transitions among Health States Using 12 Measures of Successful Aging in Men and Women: Results from the Cardiovascular Health Study

Table 4

One-year transition probabilities for those starting in a sick state for 12 different variables. Bolded entries indicate a significantly healthier transition (more likely becoming healthy, less likely remaining sick, or less likely dying) among women compared to men (top half) or men compared to women (bottom half). The differences between groups based on age are described in the text.

	Age 65–74			Age 75–84			Age 85–94
	P(StoH)	P(StoS)	P(StoD)	P(StoH)	P(StoS)	P(StoD)	P(StoH)	P(StoS)	P(StoD)
Female
HOSP	0.68	0.26	0.06	0.61	0.29	0.11	0.54	0.27	0.20
BED	0.55	0.37	0.08	0.44	0.41	0.15	0.34	0.37	0.30
SPL	0.37	0.60	0.03	0.30	0.64	0.06	0.24	0.61	0.16
DEP	0.35	0.62	0.03	0.29	0.64	0.07	0.20	0.63	0.17
ADL	0.36	0.59	0.05	0.25	0.67	0.08	0.15	0.70	0.15
FLW	0.37	0.54	0.09	0.29	0.56	0.15	0.18	0.53	0.29
EXSTR	0.31	0.66	0.03	0.23	0.72	0.05	0.14	0.74	0.12
SRH	0.31	0.64	0.04	0.25	0.67	0.07	0.24	0.61	0.15
TWLK	0.29	0.68	0.03	0.16	0.80	0.05	0.06	0.84	0.10
IADL	0.30	0.67	0.03	0.22	0.73	0.05	0.16	0.73	0.11
COG	0.27	0.70	0.03	0.17	0.78	0.05	0.07	0.83	0.11
BLK	0.14	0.84	0.02	0.08	0.88	0.04	0.03	0.88	0.09
Male
HOSP	0.63	0.29	0.08	0.56	0.28	0.16	0.49	0.23	0.28
BED	0.49	0.35	0.15	0.33	0.36	0.32	0.26	0.33	0.41
SPL	0.41	0.53	0.06	0.32	0.56	0.12	0.24	0.54	0.22
DEP	0.37	0.54	0.08	0.27	0.57	0.16	0.18	0.58	0.25
ADL	0.31	0.59	0.10	0.23	0.60	0.17	0.13	0.63	0.24
FLW	0.29	0.55	0.16	0.20	0.52	0.28	0.15	0.46	0.39
EXSTR	0.37	0.57	0.07	0.31	0.56	0.14	0.20	0.56	0.24
SRH	0.32	0.60	0.08	0.25	0.62	0.13	0.18	0.59	0.24
TWLK	0.34	0.61	0.05	0.21	0.70	0.09	0.08	0.76	0.16
IADL	0.34	0.59	0.08	0.24	0.64	0.12	0.17	0.64	0.19
COG	0.27	0.69	0.04	0.18	0.74	0.08	0.07	0.78	0.15
BLK	0.21	0.76	0.04	0.14	0.79	0.07	0.08	0.77	0.15