Figure 2From: Which chronic diseases and disease combinations are specific to multimorbidity in the elderly? Results of a claims data based cross-sectional study in Germany Mean number of chronic conditions according to age and gender in the non-multimorbid and the multimorbid sample. Means were calculated for each year of life until 80. Due to the small number of cases in old age, we generated four age groups for age > 80 years before calculation.Back to article page