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Selected U.S. National Research Findings
Below are selected national
women's health research findings and facts related to aging. This information is selected text from articles or documents. Please view the source
documents below each bulleted section to determine the exact context.
For more resources on this topic, visit: Aging: Women’s Health Topics A-Z
http://www.cdc.gov/women/az/aging.htm
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Aging: Caregiving
Aging: Diabetes
Aging: Heart Disease and Stroke (Cardiovascular Disease)
Aging: Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)
Aging: Injury
Aging: Orthopedics
Aging: Physical Activity
Aging: Statistics (General)- includes multiple topics, behavioral risks, trends, and/or summary statistics
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Aging: Caregiving |
| • According
to the 1998 and 2000 National Home and Hospice Care Surveys, more males
than females lived with their primary caregiver, 90 percent versus 68
percent, most likely due to men being cared for by their spouses who
outlived them. •
More women than men received assistance with any activity of daily
living overall, 53 percent compared to 42 percent, respectively.
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Almost half of the female patients (45 percent) received assistance from
a home health agency to bathe or shower compared to more than one-third
of male patients (35 percent).
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Eating assistance was almost twice as likely among female patients as
male.
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25 percent of females received assistance from the agency in using the
toilet room compared to 16 percent of males.
Source: Older Patients with Caregivers and Assistance
for Activities of Daily Living: 1998 and 2000
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hestats/
homhltpatients.htm
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Aging:
Diabetes |
• The 2002 National
Health Interview Survey (NHIS) identified a substantially higher
prevalence of visual impairment and eye disease among persons aged >50
years with diabetes compared with those without diabetes.
• The prevalence of visual impairment, cataracts, and glaucoma was
higher among persons aged >50 years with diabetes than among
those without diabetes, overall, and for most groups examined.
• Among persons with diabetes, the age-adjusted prevalence of visual
impairment was higher among women than men (28.5% versus 19.2%) and
higher among those with less than high school education than among
those with high school or more education (30.5% versus 20.9%).
• Among persons with diabetes, the prevalence of cataracts was higher
among persons aged >65 years than persons aged 50-64 years
(50.3% versus 16.1%), higher among women than men (37.3% versus 26.7%),
and higher among non-Hispanic whites than those of other racial/ethnic
populations (34.8% versus 24.1%).
Source: Prevalence
of Visual Impairment and Selected Eye Diseases among Persons Aged >50
Years With and Without Diabetes- United States, 2002
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5345a3.htm
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Aging: Heart Disease and Stroke
(Cardiovascular Disease) |
| • Stroke hospitalization rates increased with age and were higher among men than women
and among blacks than whites. • Higher proportions of women and blacks
[hospitalized for stroke] were
discharged to either a skilled nursing facility or other facility than men or whites, respectively.
Source: Public Health and Aging: Hospitalizations for Stroke Among Adults Aged >65
Years - United States, 2000
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5225a3.htm
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| • Age-adjusted death rates for
atrial fibrillation (AF) were highest among whites (25.7) and blacks (16.4) and
higher for men (34.7) than women (22.8). • The rate of hospitalization among persons
with AF was higher among whites (142.7) than among blacks (100.4). Although 55.7% of these hospitalizations were among women, men (162.9) had
a higher rate of AF-related hospitalization than women (121.2).
Source: Public Health and Aging: Atrial Fibrillation (AF) as a Contributing Cause of
Death and Medicare Hospitalization - United States, 1999
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5207a2.htm
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Aging: Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) |
• Nearly one-half of postmenopausal U.S. women have used different forms of HRT at some
time.
• Over one-third of HRT pill users have been on the therapy for more than 10 years.
• HRT use is not evenly distributed among subgroups, with the use of HRT being associated with menopausal type, race/ ethnicity, education,
and family income.
Source: Use of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) Among Postmenopausal Women in the United
States, 1988-1994
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhanes/databriefs/
hrtinwomen.pdf
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Aging: Injury |
• The majority (55.4%) of adults aged >60 years who were
examined in emergency departments [for nonfatal assault-related
injuries] were men.• Compared with persons aged 20-59
years, a greater proportion of older assault victims were women, had fractures and were hospitalized at the time of diagnosis; however, these
differences were not statistically significant.
Source: Public Health and Aging: Nonfatal Physical Assault-Related Injuries
Among Persons Aged >60 Years Treated in Hospital Emergency Departments- United States, 2001
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5234a2.htm
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Aging: Orthopedics |
• Total knee
replacement has become one of the most common orthopedic procedures
performed on older persons.
• During 1979-2002, the rate of knee replacement procedures among those
aged >65 years increased approximately eightfold.
• These [knee replacement] procedures [among those aged >65
years] are performed more frequently for women than men.
QuickStats: Rate of
Total Knee Replacement for Persons Aged >65 Years, by Sex -
United States, 1979-2002
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5407a6.htm
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Aging: Physical Activity |
• Women aged >65 years were less likely than men to meet the Healthy People
objective - adults who perform >2 days per week physical activities that enhance and maintain muscular strength and endurance.
Source: Strength Training Among Adults Aged >65 Years- United States, 2001
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5302a1.htm
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• Women were significantly less likely than men to be asked
[by their health card provide] about their level of physical
activity or exercise.
Source: Prevalence of Health-Care Providers Asking Older Adults About Their Physical
Activity Levels - United States, 1998
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5119a2.htm
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Aging: Statistics (General)
- includes multiple topics, behavioral risks, trends, and/or summary
statistics |
| •
In 2000-2003, men and women 55 years of age
and over were about equally likely to be in fair or poor health
across the age groups studied, but women were more likely to have
difficulty in physical or social activities. •
Overall, prevalence rates for fair or poor health,
chronic health conditions (with the exception of diabetes), sensory
impairments, and difficulties with physical and social activities
increased with advancing age, doubling or even tripling between the age
groups 55–64 and 85 years and over.
Source:
Health Characteristics of Adults 55 Years of Age and
Over- United States, 2000-2003
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad370.pdf 
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| • During 1995-2001, women aged 45-64 reported a mean of 6.4 unhealthy days, compared with
4.7 unhealthy days for men. • In the higher income groups (i.e., annual household
income of >$15,000), women consistently reported more unhealthy days than men.
• Among persons with the lowest incomes, men aged 55-64 years had the highest mean number
of unhealthy days (14.8), followed by women aged 45-54 years (13.9).
Source: Public Health and Aging: Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) Among Low-Income
Persons Aged 45-64 Years– United States, 1995-2001
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5246a2.htm
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| • The median age of the world’s population is increasing because of a decline in
fertility and a 20-year increase in the average life span during the second half of the 20th century. • In 2000, the worldwide population of persons aged >65 years was an estimated 420 million, a 9.5 million
increase from 1999. The sex distribution of older U.S. residents is expected to change only moderately.
• Women represented 59% of persons aged >65 years in 2000 compared with an estimated 56%
in 2030.
• A higher life expectancy at birth for females compared with males is almost universal.
The average sex differential in 2000 was approximately 7 years in Europe and North America but less in developing countries.
Source: Trends in Aging- United States and Worldwide, 2003
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5206a2.htm
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• Under existing conditions, women who live to age 65 can expect to live about 19 years
longer, men about 16 years longer.
Source: Trends in Causes of Death Among the Elderly, 2001
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/agingtrends/01death.pdf
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