Table 4.

Factorial analysis of multimorbidity patterns in community-dwelling Brazilian older adults with moderate and severe dependence on ABVD and IADLs

	BADLs						IADLs
Morbidities	Moderate dependencea			Severe dependenceb			Moderate dependencec			Severe dependenced
	Factor1	Factor2	Factor3	Factor1	Factor2	Factor3	Factor1	Factor2	Factor3	Factor1	Factor2	Factor3
SAH		0.53		0.64			0.61			0.61
Diabetes		0.66		0.55			0.66			0.57
Hypercholesterolemia		0.57		0.71			0.57			0.66
Heart diseases		0.31		0.42					0.44	0.38
Stroke		0.46		0.34			0.37			0.39
Bronchial asthma			0.70			0.63			0.55			0.70
Rheumatoid arthritis	0.63				0.55			0.51			0.47
Chronic back problems	0.67				0.59			0.53			0.62
WMSDs	0.42				0.57			0.51			0.32
Depression	0.53				0.50			0.61			0.60
Other mental illnesses					0.42			0.40			0.43
COPD			0.76			0.70			0.67			0.76
Cancer			0.30			0.30
Kidney failure	0.33					0.44
Variance	1.69	1.50	1.34	1.73	1.57	1.52	1.47	1.44	1.42	1.56	1.48	1.47
% variance	12.10	10.64	9.57	12.36	11.23	10.90	10.50	10.30	10.15	11.18	10.55	10,50
% accumulated	12.10	22.74	32.31	12.36	23.60	34.50	10.50	20.80	30.95	11.18	21.74	32.24

SAH Systemic arterial hypertension; heart diseases (infarction, angina, heart failure), stroke – cerebrovascular accident, chronic back problems (chronic back or neck pain, low back pain, sciatica, vertebrae or disc problems), WMSDs Work-related musculoskeletal disorders, COPD Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, other mental illnesses (Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, psychosis or obsessive–compulsive disorder)

Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin and Bartlett’s test: ^a(0.624, p < 0.001), ^b(0.632, p < 0.001), ^c(0.644, p < 0.001), ^d(0.645, p < 0.001)

Rotation method: Varimax with Kaiser normalization