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Table 5 Distribution of Chronic Health Problems (CHP) related to categories of health problems In-Between ICPC chapters in the MM11+ group N = 4,560 subjects, N = 61,653 chronic health problems

From: Trajectories of multimorbidity: exploring patterns of multimorbidity in patients with more than ten chronic health problems in life course

    

Number

 

Patients

 

Category

Type

  

CHP

%

(N = 4,560)

%

I

Inflammation

 

6,987

11.3

3,537

77.6

II

Infection

  

3,629

5.9

2,451

53.8

III

Injury

  

5,556

9.0

3,401

74.6

IV

Specific conditions

 

32,016

51.9

n.c.

 

V

Neoplasms

 

3,592

5.8

2,461#

54

  

Maligne

1,444

   

1,219 (27%)

  

Other-benign

2,148

   

1,758 (39%)

VI

Congenital

 

490

0.8

n.c.

 

VII

Otherwise

 

9,383

15.2

n.c.

 

Total

ALL-types

 

61,653

100

  
  1. [#denotes including the overlap between patients with the two subtypes of neoplasm, namely N = 516 (of the 1,219 + 1,758 subjects with respective subtypes); n.c. denotes ‘not calculated’].
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