Research Article
Factors Affecting Mortality in Elderly Patients Hospitalized for Nonmalignant Reasons
Table 1
General characteristics of the patients.
| | Characteristics | |
| | Age, years | | | Gender | | | Female | 592 (58.5) | | Male | 420 (41.5) | | Reason for hospitalization | | | Poor general status | 169 (16.7) | | Diabetes mellitus | 185 (18.3) | | Cardiovascular diseases | 67 (6.6) | | Pulmonary diseases | 96 (9.5) | | Gastrointestinal diseases | 95 (9.4) | | Renal diseases | 157 (15.5) | | Infection | 77 (7.6) | | Anemia | 124 (12.3) | | Rheumatologic diseases | 9 (0.9) | | Electrolyte imbalance | 25 (2.5) | | Other | 8 (0.8) | | Presence of at least one comorbidity | 914 (90.3) | | Comorbidity | | | Cardiovascular disease | 412 (40.7) | | Hypertension | 610 (60.3) | | Diabetes mellitus | 389 (38.4) | | Chronic renal failure | 65 (6.4) | | Malignant diseases | 91 (9.0) | | Cirrhosis | 23 (2.3) | | Other | 200 (19.8) | | Duration of hospital stay, days | |
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Values are presented as mean ± standard deviation or number (%), where appropriate.
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