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

Table 2

Prevalence of a healthy state among men and women, with health defined separately for each domain. Bolded entries represent significantly higher prevalence of health in women (left columns) or men (right columns). The differences between groups based on age are described in the text.

	Female			Male
	65–74	75–84	85–94	65–74	75–84	85–94
Number of observations	12261	12433	2183	7801	8867	1752
Mean age	71.0	78.6	87.5	71.1	78.6	87.7
HOSP: no hospital days	91.3	87.8	84.9	88.0	85.6	81.7
BED: no bed days	94.3	92.3	89.3	95.9	94.6	91.3
SPL: Satisfied with purpose of life	75.7	69.8	59.6	80.7	75.2	67.4
DEP: not depressed	80.2	73.8	64.3	87.6	81.4	70.9
ADL: no ADL difficulties	86.3	76.1	56.7	90.2	82.7	67.6
FLW: feel life is worthwhile	94.4	91.0	83.6	95.3	91.7	85.6
EXSTR: good extremity strength	67.6	57.6	42.1	84.6	78.8	65.4
SRH: high self-rated health	79.0	70.8	60.7	80.0	73.6	64.7
TWLK: walk 10 feet < 10 seconds	64.3	44.5	16.9	73.8	58.6	30.0
IADL: no IADL difficulties	71.8	58.7	39.5	80.9	70.5	50.7
COG: 3 MSE > 90	70.9	54.6	27.6	67.2	53.1	25.7
BLK: walked 4+ blocks per day	33.3	20.9	8.5	47.7	37.8	22.3