Gender Differences between Multimorbidity and All-Cause Mortality among Older Adults

Table 2

Prevalence of the combination of two chronic diseases (SABE study, municipality of São Paulo, 2000).

	HT	MSDs	CD	DM	MD	RD
HT	†	—	—	—	—	—
MSDs	16.25	†	—	—	—	—
CD	13.06	6.67	†	—	—	—
DM	12.78	5.03	3.94	†	—	—
MD	8.14	5.10	3.15	2.81	†	—
RD	5.00	3.02	2.73	1.23	1.66	†

HT: hypertension; MSDS: musculoskeletal disorders; CD: cardiovascular diseases; DM: diabetes mellitus; MD: mental disorders; RD: respiratory diseases. The most prevalent five combinations. † denotes no value. — denotes values which were previously calculated.