Table 1 Demographics for the incident sleep apnea patient cohort of 2017 at the time of sleep apnea diagnosis, for the matched control population, and for the general population who had used health care services that year
From: Lower respiratory tract infections among newly diagnosed sleep apnea patients
Incident sleep apnea | Matched controls | General population | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
male | female | all | male | female | all | male | female | all | |
n | 16,263 | 9,061 | 25,324 | 16,263 | 9,061 | 25,324 | 1,381,433 | 1,841,966 | 3,223,399 |
Age (mean) | 56.3 | 58.8 | 57.2 | 56.3 | 58.8 | 57.2 | 51.4 | 52.6 | 52.1 |
Age 65 + (%) | 4,783 (29.4) | 3,130 (34.5) | 7,913 (31.2) | 4,740 (29.1) | 3,101 (34.2) | 7,841 (31.0) | 432,274 (31.3) | 609,576 (33.1) | 1,041,850 (32.3) |
Diabetes (%) | 3,324 (20.4*) | 1,705 (18.8*) | 5,029 (19.9*) | 2,507 (15.4) | 1,113 (12.3) | 3,620 (14.3) | 135,176 (9.8) | 133,941 (7.3) | 269,117 (8.3) |
Obese (%) | 1,053 (6.5*) | 1,053 (11.6*) | 2,106 (8.3*) | 241 (1.5) | 313 (3.5) | 554 (2.2) | 12,308 (0.9) | 27,840 (1.5) | 40,148 (1.2) |
COPD (%) | 572 (3.5*) | 293 (3.2*) | 865 (3.4*) | 386 (2.4) | 149 (1.6) | 535 (2.1) | 21,140 (1.5) | 14,433 (0.8) | 35,573 (1.1) |
Asthma (%) | 967 (5.9*) | 1,137 (12.5*) | 2,104 (8.3*) | 657 (4.0) | 620 (6.8) | 1,277 (5.0) | 35,029 (2.5) | 72,658 (3.9) | 107,687 (3.3) |
Multimorbid (%) | 9,478 (58.3) | 6,560 (72.4) | 16,038 (63.3) | 9,184 (56.5) | 6,386 (70.5) | 15,570 (61.5) | 485,917 (35.2) | 740,738 (40.2) | 1,226,655 (38.1) |
Outsourced healthcare (%) | 417 (2.6) | 216 (2.4) | 633 (2.5) | 433 (2.7) | 236 (2.6) | 669 (2.6) | 28,066 (2.0) | 34,085 (1.9) | 62,151 (1.9) |
Integrated health care (%) | 2,808 (17.3) | 1,690 (18.7) | 4,498 (17.8) | 2,657 (16.3) | 1,616 (17.8) | 4,273 (16.9) | 256,279 (18.6) | 332,805 (18.1) | 589,084 (18.3) |