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Table 1 Characteristics of patients

From: Psychological impact of lifestyle-related disease disclosure at general checkup: a prospective cohort study

 

Total No.

abnormality group

Notified abnormality/Disease undisclosed group

Disease disclosed group

Number of patients

503

233

159

111

Gender (male/female)

182/321

68/165

66/93

48/63

Age (Mean age ± SD)

62.2 ± 9.1

61.9 ± 9.4

62.0 ± 9.0

63.3 ± 8.9

Number of patients by disease*

    

Hypertension

57 (11%)

17 (7%)

24 (15%)

16 (14%)

Dyslipidemia

169 (34%)

43 (18%)

71 (45%)

55 (50%)

Diabetes

23 (4%)

1 (0.4%)

9 (6%)

13 (12%)

Hyperuricemia

35 (7%)

7 (3%)

15 (9%)

13 (12%)

With or without depression tendency

    

Depression tendency

106 (21%)

38 (16%)

35 (22%)

33 (30%)

  1. *One patient may be afflicted by more than one disease. For “with or without depression tendency”, patients who answered yes to either or both of the two questions regarding depression (loss of interest, depressed mood) were considered to have a depression tendency.
  2. SD: standard deviation.