Table 2.

Prevalence of multimorbidity in persons with at least 2 diseases, NHIS 2018 (n = 7580)

	Cancer Survivors n (%)	Controls n (%)	p value
Individual Diseases	n = 811	n = 6769
Hypertension	569 (70.3)	5097 (75.3)	0.002
Coronary heart disease	114 (14.1)	1011 (15.0)	0.497
Heart attack (myocardial infarction)	58 (7.16)	698 (10.3)	0.004
Angina/other heart condition	185 (22.8)	1557 (23.1)	0.886
Stroke	75 (9.27)	641 (9.48)	0.849
Emphysema	53 (6.56)	324 (4.79)	0.029
Asthma	144 (17.8)	1228 (18.1)	0.828
Ulcer	103 (12.7)	866 (12.8)	0.938
Diabetes	167 (20.6)	1875 (27.7)	< .0001
Liver disease	19 (2.38)	218 (3.26)	0.181
Arthritis	440 (54.4)	4059 (60.0)	0.002
High cholesterol	472 (58.5)	4536 (67.2)	< .0001
COPD	98 (12.1)	751 (11.1)	0.392
Hepatitis	34 (4.24)	365 (5.47)	0.143
Multimorbidity Count
2–3	346 (42.7)	4220 (62.3)	< .0001
4–5	304 (37.5)	1811 (26.8)
6 +	161 (19.8)	738 (10.9)