Table 3.

Comparison of prevalence estimates for comorbidities by age tertile and improvement by algorithm

Comorbidity	Algorithma	Age 18–47 years		Age 48–55 years		Age 56–64 years
		Prevalence, %	Improvement compared to algorithm 1, %	Prevalence, %	Improvement compared to algorithm 1, %	Prevalence, %	Improvement compared to algorithm 1, %
Diabetes	1	1.39		4.56		8.57
	2	1.92	38.13	5.26	15.35	10.11	17.97
	3	2.09	50.36	5.62	23.25	10.46	22.05
	4	2.64	89.93	6.35	39.25	11.57	35.01
Hypertension	1	5.62		14.14		24.93
	2	8.45	50.36	19.16	35.50	33.38	33.89
	3	9.24	64.41	20.98	48.37	35.59	42.76
	4	11.04	96.44	24.00	69.73	40.23	61.37
Deficiency anemia	1	4.44		4.35		3.67
	2	5.47	23.20	5.86	34.71	4.66	19.18
	3	6.77	52.48	7.37	69.43	5.82	48.85
Smoking	1	1.78		1.61		1.94
	2	7.03	294.94	7.94	393.17	7.41	281.96
	3	11.96	571.91	13.51	739.13	12.55	546.91
	4	12.20	585.39	13.77	755.28	12.70	554.64
Obesity	1	0.84		1.28		1.31
	2	2.79	232.14	3.49	172.66	3.86	194.66
	3	5.07	503.57	6.20	384.38	7.74	490.84

^a See Table 1 for description of each algorithm