Table 8.

AHRQ-CCS Disease Categories Excluded to Create a Healthy Cohort

Disease group name	AHRQ-CCS category number
AHRQ-CCS categories that suggested the presence of cardiovascular diseases or their equivalents at baseline
Diabetes mellitus with and without complications	49 and 50
Heart valve disorders	96
Pericarditis, endocarditis, myocarditis, or cardiomyopathy	97
Hypertension with complications and secondary hypertension	99
Acute myocardial infarction	100
Coronary atherosclerosis and other heart disease	101
Pulmonary heart disease	103
Conduction disorders	105
Cardiac dysrhythmias	106
Cardiac arrest and ventricular fibrillation	107
Congestive heart failure; non-hypertensive	108
Acute cerebrovascular disease	109
Occlusion or stenosis of precerebral arteries	110
Other and ill-defined cerebrovascular disease	111
Transient cerebral ischemia	112
Peripheral and visceral atherosclerosis	114
Aortic; peripheral; and visceral artery aneurysms	115
Aortic and peripheral arterial embolism or thrombosis	116
AHRQ-CCS categories suggesting the presence of comorbid conditions that might limit life expectancy or physical activity
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and bronchiectasis	127
Respiratory failure; insufficiency; arrest in adult	131
Nephritis; nephrosis; renal sclerosis	156
Chronic kidney disease	158
Rheumatoid arthritis and related disease	202
Pathological fracture	207
Systemic lupus erythematosus and connective tissue disorders	210
Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders	659
Suicide and intentional self-inflicted injury	662

AHRQ-CCS Agency for Health Research and Quality Clinical Classifications Software¹¹