Table 3.

Frequency of diseases, the effect of disease on memory and the interaction of disease and memory

ICD-10 code/disease	Frequency	Percent	p Value
			Disease	Memory	Disease x Memory
Musculatory and skeletal
Osteoarthritis	4722	26.8	<0.001	ns	ns
Rheumatoid arthritis	926	5.2	<0.001	ns	ns
Fibromyalgia	918	5.2	<0.001	ns	ns
Bechterew’s disease	363	1.6	ns	ns	ns
Sensory
Cataract	2684	15.3	<0.001	ns	ns
Glaucoma	945	5.6	<0.01	ns	ns
Macular degeneration	731	4.3	<0.001	ns	ns
Respiratory
Asthma	2155	11.6	=0.004	ns	ns
COPD	967	5.2	<0.001	=0.037	=0.020
Mental
Depression	1748	11.0	<0.001	ns	=0.028
Neoplasm
Cancer	1757	9.4	<0.001	=0.014	=0.002
Endocrine
Diabetes	1360	7.3	<0.001	=0.002	<0.001
Circulatory
Angina pectoris	1387	7.4	<0.001	ns	ns
Heart infarction	1180	6.3	<0.001	ns	ns
Other heart diseases	1054	5.7	<0.001	ns	ns
Brain infarction	880	4.7	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Heart failure	419	2.2	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Blood and blood forming organs
Kidney	630	3.4	<0.001	ns	ns
External lesions whiplash	789	4.6	<0.001	0.050	ns
Nervous epilepsy	281	1.6	=0.005	ns	ns

COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; ICD, International Classification of Diseases; ns, not significant.