Predicting Successful Aging in a Population-Based Sample of Georgia Centenarians
Table 5
Lifetime Prevalence of chronic diseases among centenarians in the GCS.
Prevalence
Prevalence
Chronic Disease
Male (%)
Female (%)
Pooled over sexes (%)
Number of centenarians
cardiovascular
27 (73)
169 (82)
196 (80)
244
dementia
15 (41)
121
136 (57)
240$
pneumonia
15 (41)
90 (43)
105 (43)
244
cancer
14 (38)
59 (29)
73 (30)
244
osteoporosis
1 (3)
58
59 (24)
244
psychiatric
2 (5)
45
47 (19)
244
anemia
5 (14)
37 (18)
42 (17)
244
diabetes
3 (8)
18 (9)
21 (9)
244
kidney
7 (19)
11
18 (7)
244
neurological
4 (11)
11 (5)
15 (6)
244
COPD
2 (5)
2 (1)
4 (2)
244
by Fisher’s Exact Test of disease associated with sex [19]; by Fisher’s Exact Test of disease associated with sex [19]; by Fisher’s Exact test of disease associated with sex [19]. $Four centenarians had missing data.