Understanding Health Deterioration and the Dynamic Relationship between Physical Ability and Cognition among a Cohort of Danish Nonagenarians

Table 2

Health conditions of the study population in the first wave in 1998 when the individuals were 93 years old.

Characteristics	Sex
	M		F		T
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Physical ability: Chair-Stand Test							<0.001
Not able	70	12.0	293	17.5	363	16.0
With use of hands	210	36.0	689	41.1	899	39.7
Without use of hands	304	52.1	696	41.5	1000	44.2
Cognitive health: Mini-Mental State Examination							<0.001
0–17	124	21.2	472	28.1	596	26.3
18–23	177	30.3	524	31.2	701	31.0
24–30	283	48.5	682	40.6	965	42.7

Men versus women from Pearson χ² test.