Table 1.

Probabilities of Having Chronic Conditions and Mean Number of Chronic Diseases for Each Multimorbidity Pattern Group.

	Age-associated (22.3%)	Severely impaired(14.6%)	Minimal chronic conditions (26.3%)	Obesity/diabetes(18.6%)	Respiratory/depression(18.2%)
Hypertension	0.80	0.93	0.25	0.86	0.44
Diabetes	0.25	0.59	0.07	0.54	0.09
Cholesterol	0.71	0.86	0.28	0.71	0.48
MI/CHD	0.29	0.68	0.03	0.13	0.14
stroke	0.17	0.38	0.03	0.08	0.12
Asthma/COPD	0.17	0.66	0.12	0.34	0.59
Arthritis	0.52	0.85	0.38	0.74	0.85
Blind/deaf	0.36	0.60	0.22	0.30	0.42
Depression	0.20	0.64	0.26	0.55	0.70
Kidney disease	0.09	0.26	0.01	0.11	0.06
Obesity	0.20	0.54	0.21	0.79	0.32
Cancer	0.39	0.39	0.24	0.22	0.34
Mean number of chronic diseases	4.1	7.7	1.8	5.3	4.6

Note. CHD—coronary heart disease; MI—myocardial infarction; COPD—chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The number in bold indicates higher probability of having that chronic disease/condition in that multimorbidity subgroup.