Table 1. List of conditions.

• heart attack including myocardial infarction or coronary thrombosis or any other heart problem including congestive heart failure; • high blood pressure or hypertension; • high blood cholesterol; • stroke or cerebral vascular disease; • diabetes or high blood sugar; • chronic lung disease such as chronic bronchitis or emphysema; • cancer or malignant tumour, including leukaemia or lymphoma, but excluding minor skin cancers; • stomach or duodenal ulcer, peptic ulcer; • Parkinson disease;

• cataracts; • hip fracture; • other fractures; • Alzheimer's disease, dementia, organic brain syndrome, senility or any other serious memory impairment; • other affective or emotional disorders, including anxiety, nervous or psychiatric problems; • rheumatoid arthritis; • osteoarthritis, or other rheumatism; • chronic kidney disease; • other conditions, not yet mentioned*

*Other conditions, not mentioned on the list could not be specified or retrieved due to SHARE data-protection policy. Therefore, any declared additional disease(s) were counted as one, and a total number of 18 conditions was considered.