Demographic characteristics and type of hospital of CABG surgery patients by socioeconomic status (SES), Rome 1996–1997. Level I = highest; level IV = lowest
| SES level | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | II | III | IV | Total | |||||||||||||
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | ||||||||
| Sex | |||||||||||||||||
| male | 277 | 83.9 | 505 | 83.1 | 499 | 86.3 | 281 | 78.9 | 1561 | 83.4 | |||||||
| female | 53 | 16.1 | 103 | 16.9 | 79 | 13.7 | 75 | 21.1 | 311 | 16.6 | |||||||
| Age (y) | |||||||||||||||||
| 35–49 | 21 | 6.4 | 44 | 7.2 | 53 | 9.2 | 26 | 7.3 | 144 | 7.7 | |||||||
| 50–69 | 197 | 59.7 | 404 | 66.4 | 399 | 69.0 | 252 | 70.8 | 1252 | 66.9 | |||||||
| ⩾70 | 112 | 33.9 | 160 | 26.3 | 126 | 21.8 | 78 | 21.9 | 475 | 25.4 | |||||||
| mean age (SD) | 64.9 (8.9) | 63.7 (8.4) | 62.5 (8.5) | 62.3 (8.5) | 63.3 (8.6) | ||||||||||||
| Type of hospital | |||||||||||||||||
| teaching | 240 | 72.7 | 410 | 67.4 | 388 | 67.1 | 219 | 61.5 | 1256 | 67.1 | |||||||
| non-teaching | 59 | 17.9 | 164 | 27.0 | 170 | 29.4 | 135 | 37.9 | 528 | 28.2 | |||||||
| private | 31 | 9.4 | 34 | 5.6 | 20.23 | 3.5 | 2 | 0.6 | 86 | 4.6 | |||||||