Research Article
The Use of Multiple Correspondence Analysis to Explore Associations between Categories of Qualitative Variables in Healthy Ageing
Table 1
Clinical, general lifestyle, physical, and cognitive characterization.
| | Count | Column (%) |
| Sociodemographic characteristics | | | Gender | | | Male | 410 | 50.5% | Female | 402 | 49.5% | Age | | | [50–60[ | 239 | 29.4% | [60–70[ | 281 | 34.6% | [70–...[ | 292 | 36.0% | School years | | | Less than 4 years | 191 | 23.5% | 4 years | 465 | 57.3% | More than 4 years | 156 | 19.2% | Clinical characteristics | | | Stroke | | | Yes | 42 | 5.2% | No | 770 | 94.8% | Cardiac pathology | | | Yes | 75 | 9.2% | No | 737 | 90.8% | Diabetes | | | Yes | 153 | 18.8% | No | 659 | 81.2% | Dyslipidemia | | | Yes | 449 | 55.3% | No | 363 | 44.7% | Hypertension | | | Yes | 452 | 55.7% | No | 360 | 44.3% | Lifestyle and physical characteristics | | | Smoking habits | | | Former smoker | 200 | 24.6% | Smoker | 63 | 7.8% | Nonsmoker | 549 | 67.6% | Alcohol consumption | | | 50 or less gr/day | 379 | 46.7% | More than 50 gr/day | 200 | 24.6% | None | 233 | 28.7% | Physical activity | | | Less than 3 times per week | 134 | 16.5% | Over 3 times per week | 178 | 21.9% | None | 500 | 61.6% | BMI | | | Normal/underweight | 188 | 23.2% | Overweight | 389 | 47.9% | Obese | 235 | 28.9% | Metabolic risk | | | Increased | 199 | 24.5% | Substantially increased | 483 | 59.5% | None | 130 | 16.0% | Cognitive dimensions | | | GENEXEC | | | Poor | 201 | 24.8% | Normal | 409 | 50.4% | Good | 202 | 24.9% | MEM | | | Poor | 176 | 21.7% | Normal | 406 | 50.0% | Good | 230 | 28.3% |
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