Table 1.

Characteristics of the population under study.

	study population	mm-sample	nmm-sample
Size	100.0%	58.9%	41.1%
Percentage of women	42.4%	44.6%	39.2%
Age (mean, SD)	72.0 (6.1)	72.9 (6.3)	70.7 (5.6)
Female	72.8 (6.7)	73.6 (6.8)	71.4 (6.2)
Male	71.4 (5.7)	72.3 (5.9)	70.2 (5.1)
Mean number of chronic conditions (SD)	3.6 (3.1)	5.7 (2.5)	0.8 (0.8)
Female	3.9 (3.2)	5.7 (2.6)	0.8 (0.9)
Male	3.5 (3.1)	5.6 (2.5)	0.7 (0.8)
Nursing dependency	13.4%	16.9%	8.3%
Female	16.0%	19.6%	10.3%
Male	11.4%	14.8%	7.0%

mm-sample = multimorbid sample; nmm-sample = non-multimorbid sample; SD = standard deviation