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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 17.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2012 Jun 20;126(3):270–277. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.111.077875

Table 3.

Most Common ICD-9 Diagnosis Codes

Rank ICD-9
Code
Description % of Patients with the ICD-9 Code P-value

Group I (Repletion) Group II (Control)
1 272 Disorders of lipoid metabolism 56 49.1 <0.0001
2 401 Essential hypertension 37.9 33.5 <0.0001
3 250 Diabetes mellitus 25.8 25.9 0.48
4 780 General symptoms 12.6 11.3 0.04
5 V70 General medical examination 11.6 10.7 0.11
6 244 Acquired hypothyroidism 11.4 10.1 0.04
7 268 Vitamin D deficiency 9.7 9.5 0.42
8 V58 Other and unspecified aftercare 6.8 5.9 0.05
9 790 Nonspecific findings on examination of blood 5.9 6 0.48
10 733 Other disorders of bone and cartilage 5 4.3 0.07