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Table 1 Age and the number of diagnosis groups by gender in the multimorbid* population of 2006 and 2004

From: Reducing complexity: a visualisation of multimorbidity by combining disease clusters and triads

 

2006

2004

 

Females

Males

Females

Males

Number of patients

43,632 (44.2%)

54,987 (55.8%)

32,369 (44.6%)

40,179 (55.4%)

Age: mean ± sd

73.3 ± 6.8

72.2 ± 5.9

73.6 ± 6.8

72.3 ± 5.9

Chronic conditions: mean ± sd

6.0 ± 2.7

5.9 ± 2.6

5.7 ± 2.6

5.6 ± 2.5

  1. sd = standard deviation; *patients are defined as multimorbid if they have ≥ 3 chronic conditions.