Could high continuity of care (COC) have a negative impact on subjective health of hypertensive patients? A Japanese perspective

Kumagai, Narimasa; Nishimura, Shuzo; Jakovljević, Mihajlo

doi:10.1186/s12962-023-00448-6

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation

Table 1 Sample characteristics of hypertensive patients classified by physician visits.

From: Could high continuity of care (COC) have a negative impact on subjective health of hypertensive patients? A Japanese perspective

Variables	Patients who continued physician visits during the past two consecutive years			Patients who did not continue physician visits during the past two consecutive years
Variables	N	Mean	SD	N	Mean	SD
Self-assessed health	72,613	3.948	0.90	43,915	3.882	0.94
Dummy variable for poor self-assessed health	72,613	0.058	0.23	43,915	0.072	0.26
Dummy variable for good self-assessed health	72,613	0.253	0.43	43,915	0.244	0.43
Demographic variables
Age	72,613	64.25	4.60	43,915	61.36	5.39
Gender (male = 1)	72,613	0.525	0.50	43,915	0.551	0.50
Married (reference)	72,613	0.939	0.24	43,915	0.922	0.27
Never married	72,613	0.061	0.24	43,915	0.067	0.25
Divorced or widowed	72,613	0.000	0.01	43,915	0.011	0.10
Dummy variable for living together with family members excluding spouse	72,578	0.542	0.50	43,794	0.585	0.49
Dummy variable for earned income during the past month	62,583	0.596	0.49	36,551	0.715	0.45
Objective health status
Dummy variable for having diabetes	71,512	0.184	0.39	43,607	0.161	0.37
Dummy variable for having lipidemia	71,131	0.272	0.45	43,347	0.212	0.41
Dummy variable for having stroke	70,612	0.043	0.20	43,221	0.047	0.21
Dummy variable for having heart diseases	71,245	0.090	0.29	43,492	0.085	0.28
Dummy variable for having cancer	70,919	0.038	0.19	43,310	0.032	0.18
Lifestyle
Almost every day drinking	72,613	0.236	0.42	43,915	0.232	0.42
No habitual exercise	72,396	0.338	0.47	43,352	0.389	0.49
Smoking habit	72,613	0.161	0.37	43,915	0.219	0.41
Educational attainment
Junior high school	72,613	0.173	0.38	43,915	0.202	0.40
High school (reference)	72,613	0.511	0.50	43,915	0.493	0.50
Vocational school or junior college	72,613	0.142	0.35	43,915	0.139	0.35
University or graduate school	72,613	0.168	0.37	43,915	0.159	0.37

Non-respondents of self-assessed health are excluded

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