Table 1.
Distribution of the study population by sociodemographic characteristics and by number of conditions constituting multimorbidity.
| Number of chronic conditions, functional limitations, and geriatric syndromes |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (% of total study population) | 0 or 1 N (%) |
2 or 3 N (%) |
4 or 5 N (%) |
6 or 7 N (%) |
8 or 9 N (%) |
≥10 N (%) |
|
| Total population | 17,912 (100.0) | 2,802 (15.6) | 4,000 (22.3) | 3,743 (20.9) | 3,200 (17.9) | 2,129 (11.9) | 2,038 (11.4) |
| Age, years | |||||||
| 50–64 | 9,111 (50.9) | 2,285 (25.1) | 2,554 (28.0) | 1,751 (19.2) | 1,170 (12.8) | 680 (7.5) | 671 (7.4) |
| 65–74 | 4,254 (23.7) | 391 (9.2) | 929 (21.8) | 1,086 (25.5) | 938 (22.0) | 499 (11.7) | 411 (9.7) |
| 75–84 | 3,246 (18.1) | 112 (3.5) | 443 (13.6) | 734 (22.6) | 808 (24.9) | 607 (18.7) | 542 (16.7) |
| ≥85 | 1,301 (7.3) | 14 (1.1) | 74 (5.7) | 172 (13.2) | 284 (21.8) | 343 (26.4) | 414 (31.8) |
| Sex | |||||||
| Male | 7,640 (42.7) | 1,439 (18.8) | 1,897 (24.8) | 1,610 (21.1) | 1,262 (16.5) | 765 (10.0) | 667 (8.7) |
| Female | 10,272 (57.3) | 1,363 (13.3) | 2,103 (20.5) | 2,133 (20.8) | 1,938 (18.9) | 1,364 (13.3) | 1,371 (13.3) |
| Race/ethnicity | |||||||
| White Non-Hispanic | 11,770 (65.7) | 1,881 (16.0) | 2,621 (22.3) | 2,544 (21.6) | 2,138 (18.2) | 1,388 (11.8) | 1,198 (10.2) |
| Black Non-Hispanic | 3,346 (18.7) | 439 (13.1) | 706 (21.1) | 683 (20.4) | 601 (18.0) | 413 (12.3) | 504 (15.1) |
| Hispanic | 2,264 (12.6) | 356 (15.7) | 524 (23.1) | 434 (19.2) | 379 (16.7) | 280 (12.4) | 291 (12.9) |
| Other | 532 (3.0) | 126 (23.7) | 149 (28.0) | 82 (15.4) | 82 (15.4) | 48 (9.0) | 45 (8.5) |
| Marital status | |||||||
| Married | 7,250 (40.5) | 822 (11.3) | 1,339 (18.5) | 1,382 (19.1) | 1,377 (19.0) | 1,090 (15.0) | 1,240 (17.1) |
| Not married | 10,662 (59.5) | 1,980 (18.6) | 2,661 (25.0) | 2,361 (22.1) | 1,823 (17.1) | 1,039 (9.7) | 798 (7.5) |
| Education, years | |||||||
| <9 | 1,696 (9.5) | 98 (5.8) | 249 (14.7) | 296 (17.5) | 339 (20.0) | 306 (18.0) | 408 (24.1) |
| 9–11 | 2,068 (11.5) | 133 (6.4) | 298 (14.4) | 408 (19.7) | 447 (21.6) | 376 (18.2) | 406 (19.6) |
| 12 | 5,638 (31.5) | 700 (12.4) | 1,178 (20.9) | 1,224 (21.7) | 1,172 (20.8) | 717 (12.7) | 647 (11.5) |
| 13–15 | 4,256 (23.8) | 752 (17.7) | 1,044 (24.5) | 944 (22.2) | 702 (16.5) | 432 (10.2) | 382 (9.0) |
| 16 | 2,210 (12.3) | 579 (26.2) | 642 (29.0) | 438 (19.8) | 278 (12.6) | 167 (7.6) | 106 (4.8) |
| ≥17 | 2,044 (11.4) | 540 (26.4) | 589 (28.8) | 433 (21.2) | 262 (12.8) | 131 (6.4) | 89 (4.4) |
| Income as % of federal poverty level | |||||||
| <100 | 2,315 (12.9) | 183 (7.9) | 355 (15.3) | 447 (19.3) | 416 (18.0) | 376 (16.2) | 538 (23.2) |
| 100–199 | 3,479 (19.4) | 269 (7.7) | 514 (14.8) | 643 (18.5) | 769 (22.1) | 625 (18.0) | 659 (18.9) |
| 200–299 | 2,954 (16.5) | 333 (11.3) | 590 (20.0) | 638 (21.6) | 617 (20.9) | 427 (14.5) | 349 (11.8) |
| ≥300 | 9,164 (51.2) | 2,017 (22.0) | 2,541 (27.7) | 2,015 (22.0) | 1,398 (15.3) | 701 (7.6) | 492 (5.4) |
| Medicaid status | |||||||
| No | 16,796 (93.8) | 2,784 (16.6) | 3,935 (23.4) | 3,598 (21.4) | 2,995 (17.8) | 1,872 (11.1) | 1,612 (9.6) |
| Yes | 1,116 (6.2) | 18 (1.6) | 65 (5.8) | 145 (13.0) | 205 (18.4) | 257 (23.0) | 426 (38.2) |