Table 2. Percent of Disabled Medicare Beneficiaries, by Type of Disability and Self-Reported Condition.
| Condition | All Disabled Beneficiaries | Persons With Mental Disability | Other Disability | ||
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| Persons Ever Told They Had a Mental Disorder | Persons With Specified Condition | Persons With Unspecified Condition | |||
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| Hardening of Arteries | 8.9 | 5.3 | 5.5 | 18.6 | 3.8 |
| Hypertension | 37.6 | 49.8 | 23.8 | 52.8 | 26.0 |
| Myocardial Infarction | 14.5 | 9.2 | 9.8 | 28.4 | 7.2 |
| Angina Pectoris or Chronic Heart Disease | 13.0 | 7.4 | 8.5 | 27.9 | 5.0 |
| Other Heart Conditions | 23.1 | 20.4 | 18.4 | 39.5 | 12.8 |
| Stroke or Brain Hemorrhage | 11.4 | 8.4 | 9.9 | 20.8 | 5.6 |
| Skin Cancer | 4.7 | 7.0 | 3.4 | 5.1 | 3.9 |
| Other Cancer or Tumor | 12.0 | 10.5 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 9.1 |
| Diabetes | 14.7 | 18.0 | 7.8 | 22.8 | 9.6 |
| Other Arthritis | 13.2 | 9.9 | 8.3 | 21.0 | 10.1 |
| Arthritis | 34.5 | 31.9 | 23.3 | 48.3 | 28.8 |
| Mental Retardation | 18.5 | 32.5 | 21.6 | 16.1 | 13.5 |
| Alzheimer's Disease | 1.0 | 3.9 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Mental Disorder | 31.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Osteoporosis | 5.7 | 4.6 | 5.8 | 9.8 | 2.7 |
| Broken Hip | 3.5 | 3.2 | 1.7 | 6.2 | 2.1 |
| Parkinson's Disease | 1.0 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 0.3 |
| Emphysema, Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease | 18.0 | 22.8 | 13.0 | 27.5 | 10.3 |
| Partial Paralysis | 21.3 | 14.8 | 16.7 | 31.2 | 17.7 |
| Loss of Arm or Leg | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 3.6 | 1.1 |
NOTE: Conditions reflect those included in the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey.
SOURCE: Health Care Financing Administration, Office of the Actuary: Data from Round 1 of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey; data analysis by the Center for Health Economics Research, Waltham, MA.