Hospital admissions and mortality over 20 years in community-dwelling older people: findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study
Hospital admissions and mortality over 20 years in community-dwelling older people: findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study
Background: demographic changes worldwide are leading to pressures on health services, with hospital admissions representing an important contributor. Here, we report admission types experienced by older people and examine baseline risk factors for subsequent admission/death, from the community-based Hertfordshire Cohort Study.
Methods: 2997 participants (1418 women) completed a baseline questionnaire and clinic visit to characterize their health. Participants were followed up from baseline (1998–2004, aged 59–73 years) until December 2018 using UK Hospital Episode Statistics and mortality data, which report clinical outcomes using ICD-10 coding. Baseline characteristics in relation to the risk of admission/death during follow-up were examined using sex-stratified univariate logistic regression.
Results: during follow-up, 36% of men and 26% of women died and 93% of men and 92% of women had at least one hospital admission; 6% of men and 7% of women had no admissions and were alive at end of follow-up. The most common types of admission during follow-up were cardiovascular (ever experienced: men 71%, women 68%) and respiratory (men 40%, women 34%). In both sexes, baseline risk factors that were associated (p < 0.05) with admission/death during follow-up were older age, poorer SF-36 physical function, and poorer self-rated health. In men, manual social class and a history of smoking, and in women, higher BMI, not owning one’s home, and a minor trauma fracture since age 45, were also risk factors for admission/death.
Conclusions: sociodemographic factors were related to increased risk of admission/death but a small proportion experienced no admissions during this period, suggesting that healthy ageing is achievable.
Ageing, Epidemiology, Hospitalisation, Mortality, Risk factor
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Rambukwella, Roshan
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Westbury, Leo D.
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Pearse, Camille
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Ward, Kate A.
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Cooper, Cyrus
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Dennison, Elaine M.
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Rambukwella, Roshan
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Westbury, Leo D.
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Pearse, Camille
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Ward, Kate A.
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Cooper, Cyrus
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Dennison, Elaine M.
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Rambukwella, Roshan, Westbury, Leo D., Pearse, Camille, Ward, Kate A., Cooper, Cyrus and Dennison, Elaine M.
(2023)
Hospital admissions and mortality over 20 years in community-dwelling older people: findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study.
Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 35 (11), .
(doi:10.1007/s40520-023-02554-0).
Abstract
Background: demographic changes worldwide are leading to pressures on health services, with hospital admissions representing an important contributor. Here, we report admission types experienced by older people and examine baseline risk factors for subsequent admission/death, from the community-based Hertfordshire Cohort Study.
Methods: 2997 participants (1418 women) completed a baseline questionnaire and clinic visit to characterize their health. Participants were followed up from baseline (1998–2004, aged 59–73 years) until December 2018 using UK Hospital Episode Statistics and mortality data, which report clinical outcomes using ICD-10 coding. Baseline characteristics in relation to the risk of admission/death during follow-up were examined using sex-stratified univariate logistic regression.
Results: during follow-up, 36% of men and 26% of women died and 93% of men and 92% of women had at least one hospital admission; 6% of men and 7% of women had no admissions and were alive at end of follow-up. The most common types of admission during follow-up were cardiovascular (ever experienced: men 71%, women 68%) and respiratory (men 40%, women 34%). In both sexes, baseline risk factors that were associated (p < 0.05) with admission/death during follow-up were older age, poorer SF-36 physical function, and poorer self-rated health. In men, manual social class and a history of smoking, and in women, higher BMI, not owning one’s home, and a minor trauma fracture since age 45, were also risk factors for admission/death.
Conclusions: sociodemographic factors were related to increased risk of admission/death but a small proportion experienced no admissions during this period, suggesting that healthy ageing is achievable.
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Accepted/In Press date: 25 August 2023
Published date: November 2023
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The authors were supported by the UK Medical Research Council [MC_PC_21003; MC_PC_21001]. The Hertfordshire Cohort Study was supported by the Medical Research Council University Unit Partnership grant number MRC_MC_UP_A620_1014.
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Ageing, Epidemiology, Hospitalisation, Mortality, Risk factor
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/482335
ISSN: 1594-0667
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