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Table 4 - Health conditions and presence of some chronic illnesses in the population who has reached<br />

65 years of age or over – Gender differences<br />

Years 2000-2008 (for 100 people of the same age and sex)<br />

2000 2002 2005 2007 2008<br />

Females Males Females Males Females Males Females Males Females Males<br />

In good health (a) 31,1 37,7 32,4 40,7 33,6 41,0 33,3 41,2 - -<br />

With at least one<br />

chronic illness<br />

83,1 77,6 83,3 76,8 84,2 75,7 84,9 76,3 84,1 78,1<br />

With at least two<br />

chronic illness<br />

63,4 51,8 64,0 50,4 64,4 50,1 66,7 52,3 64,5 52,6<br />

Chronically ill in<br />

good health (b)<br />

24,9 28,1 26,4 31,5 28,0 31,6 27,4 31,4 - -<br />

Diabetes 12,8 13,8 13,3 13,5 14,3 14,7 15,4 15,0 16,9 15,7<br />

Hypertension 41,3 35,9 42,5 35,8 44,4 40,2 48,7 41,3 49,4 45,3<br />

Chronic bronchities 16,4 24,9 17,0 22,1 16,7 21,3 17,1 21,2 14,9 19,1<br />

Osteoarthritis,<br />

arthritis<br />

63,1 47,3 63,9 46,0 63,2 42,4 65,5 45,1 61,1 42,3<br />

Osteoporosis 36,7 7,5 37,2 8,5 37,7 7,3 41,1 8,2 40,0 7,9<br />

Heart diseases 12,7 16,7 12,6 16,4 12,2 16,0 13,3 15,8 10,7 14,6<br />

Allergies 8,4 5,9 8,6 6,2 9,6 6,1 10,9 7,6 10,2 6,9<br />

Nervous diseases 12,8 8,2 12,3 6,8 10,9 6,9 12,9 8,3 11,9 7,9<br />

Gastric or duodenal<br />

ulcer<br />

7,8 10,8 6,7 9,1 7,5 8,3 7,5 8,8 5,9 8,3<br />

(a) They express a 4 or 5 level on a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is the worst state and 5 the best one<br />

(b) For 100 persons affected by at least one chronic illness<br />

(c) Including bronchial asthma<br />

Source: elaboration Censis on Istat data, “Aspects of daily life”<br />

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