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Table 1 Sociodemographic characteristics and critical variables of participants

From: The relationship between healthy lifestyles and cognitive function in Chinese older adults: the mediating effect of depressive symptoms

Variable

Overall (N = 8272)

Cognitive impairment

P value

No (N = 6967)

Yes (N = 1305)

Age(years)

81.73 (10.97)

79.98 (10.30)

91.06 (9.65)

0.00

Gender

   

0.00

 Female

4318 (52.20)

3422 (49.12)

896 (68.66)

 Male

3954 (47.80)

3545 (50.88)

409 (31.34)

Ethnic

   

0.03

 Non-Han

431 (5.21)

379 (5.44)

52(3.98)

 Han

7841 (94.79)

6588 (94.56)

1253(96.02)

Marriage

   

0.00

 divorced, widowed, or unmarried

4224 (51.06)

3211 (46.09)

1013 (77.62)

 Married

4048(48.94)

3756 (53.91)

292 (22.38)

Years of education

4.07(4.46)

4.55 (4.51)

1.48 (3.05)

0.00

Household registration

   

0.00

 Rural

5600(67.70)

4592 (65.91)

1008 (77.24)

 Urban

2672(32.30)

2375 (34.09)

297 (22.76)

Self-rated health

   

0.00

 Very poor

70(0.85)

46 (0.66)

24 (1.84)

 Poor

971(11.74)

768 (11.02)

203 (15.56)

 Fair

3170(38.32)

2624 (37.66)

546 (41.84)

 Good

2968(35.88)

2551 (36.62)

417 (31.95)

 Very good

1093(13.21)

978 (14.04)

115 (8.81)

Socioeconomic status

   

0.00

 Very poor

87(1.05)

68 (0.98)

19 (1.46)

 Poor

669(8.09)

523 (7.51)

146 (11.19)

 Fair

5768(69.73)

4827 (69.28)

941 (72.11)

 Good

1498(18.11)

1324 (19.00)

174 (13.33)

 Very good

250(3.02)

225 (3.23)

25 (1.92)

Living arrangement

   

0.31

alone

1353(16.36)

1127 (16.18)

226 (17.32)

with household member(s)

6919(83.64)

5840 (83.82)

5840 (82.68)

Healthy Lifestyles

2.28(0.89)

2.30 (0.92)

2.14 (0.70)

0.00

Depressive symptoms

7.15(4.39)

6.85 (4.24)

8.75 (4.83)

0.00

Cognitive function

26.79(4.17)

28.27 (1.80)

18.90 (4.34)

0.00