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

Table 5 Sample characteristics of the elderly not having hypertension.

Elderly not having hypertension
Variables	N	Mean	SD
Self-assessed health	242,699	4.237	0.92
Dummy variable for poor self-assessed health	242,699	0.039	0.19
Dummy variable for good self-assessed health	242,699	0.390	0.49
Demographic variables
Age	242,699	61.08	5.28
Gender (male = 1)	242,699	0.452	0.50
Married (reference)	242,699	0.912	0.28
Never married	242,699	0.079	0.27
Divorced or widowed	242,699	0.009	0.09
Dummy variable for living together with family members excluding spouse	242,243	0.591	0.49
Dummy variable for earned income during the past month	200,983	0.703	0.46
Objective health status
Dummy variable for having diabetes	241,975	0.089	0.28
Dummy variable for having lipidemia	241,654	0.137	0.34
Dummy variable for having stroke	241,345	0.015	0.12
Dummy variable for having heart diseases	241,771	0.038	0.19
Dummy variable for having cancer	241,513	0.034	0.18
Lifestyle
Almost every day drinking	242,699	0.282	0.45
No habitual exercise	240,491	0.366	0.48
Smoking habit	242,699	0.213	0.41
Educational attainment
Junior high school	242,699	0.156	0.36
High school (reference)	242,699	0.494	0.50
Vocational school or junior college	242,699	0.173	0.38
University or graduate school	242,699	0.170	0.38

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