Table 2.

Relative risks of multimorbidity for different chronic conditions according to gender

Chronic conditions	All respondents	95% CI		Female	95% CI		Male	95% CI
		Lower bound	Upper bound		Lower bound	Upper bound		Lower bound	Upper bound
High relative risk of multimorbidity
Asthma	26.18	17.82	38.46	20.67	11.85	36.06	32.68	19.18	55.67
Stroke	18.62	12.11	28.64	21.57	10.61	43.86	17.43	10.13	29.99
Heart disease	15.56	12.99	18.63	16.48	12.80	21.21	14.26	11.02	18.46
Diabetes or high blood sugar	14.40	11.18	18.55	15.68	10.86	22.63	13.11	9.24	18.62
Dyslipidaemia	14.05	11.54	17.12	15.13	11.37	20.14	12.97	9.86	17.05
Memory-related disease	13.69	8.85	21.16	34.17	12.63	92.44	9.28	5.66	15.21
Kidney disease	11.57	9.24	14.49	15.01	10.17	22.43	10.24	7.78	13.48
Liver disease	11.10	8.37	14.71	16.07	9.70	26.63	9.15	6.49	12.89
Chronic lung diseases	9.87	8.43	11.55	10.71	8.26	13.88	9.74	8.00	11.86
Low relative risk of multimorbidity
Emotional, nervous, or psychiatric problems	7.42	4.94	11.15	6.24	3.78	10.30	9.36	4.65	18.85
Stomach or other digestive disease	5.73	5.25	6.25	6.20	5.48	7.02	5.23	4.62	5.91
Hypertension	5.38	4.96	5.84	4.90	4.40	5.47	5.92	5.24	6.69
Cancer or malignant tumour	4.88	3.20	7.45	5.33	3.06	9.29	3.99	2.07	7.72
Arthritis or rheumatism	3.83	3.61	4.05	3.70	3.43	3.99	3.91	3.59	4.26