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Essay / Coronary heart disease in elderly people living in...
We also assessed the proportion of residents requiring assistance in their activities of daily living (ADL) according to the KATZ scale. Within our cohort of residents aged ≥65 years, the majority of residents with CHD required assistance with 3 to 4 ADLs (p = 0.18) (Figure 1). However, this was not statistically significant. Excluding the presence of CHD, people in the CHD cohort had on average a greater number of chronic diseases than those without CDH (CHD: 3.2 ± 1.7; non-CHD 2.5 ± 1.4). ,p