Relative risks of multimorbidity for different chronic conditions according to gender
| Chronic conditions | All respondents | 95% CI | Female | 95% CI | Male | 95% CI | |||
| Lower bound | Upper bound | Lower bound | Upper bound | Lower bound | Upper bound | ||||
| High relative risk of multimorbidity | |||||||||
| Asthma | 26.18 | 17.82 | 38.46 | 20.67 | 11.85 | 36.06 | 32.68 | 19.18 | 55.67 |
| Stroke | 18.62 | 12.11 | 28.64 | 21.57 | 10.61 | 43.86 | 17.43 | 10.13 | 29.99 |
| Heart disease | 15.56 | 12.99 | 18.63 | 16.48 | 12.80 | 21.21 | 14.26 | 11.02 | 18.46 |
| Diabetes or high blood sugar | 14.40 | 11.18 | 18.55 | 15.68 | 10.86 | 22.63 | 13.11 | 9.24 | 18.62 |
| Dyslipidaemia | 14.05 | 11.54 | 17.12 | 15.13 | 11.37 | 20.14 | 12.97 | 9.86 | 17.05 |
| Memory-related disease | 13.69 | 8.85 | 21.16 | 34.17 | 12.63 | 92.44 | 9.28 | 5.66 | 15.21 |
| Kidney disease | 11.57 | 9.24 | 14.49 | 15.01 | 10.17 | 22.43 | 10.24 | 7.78 | 13.48 |
| Liver disease | 11.10 | 8.37 | 14.71 | 16.07 | 9.70 | 26.63 | 9.15 | 6.49 | 12.89 |
| Chronic lung diseases | 9.87 | 8.43 | 11.55 | 10.71 | 8.26 | 13.88 | 9.74 | 8.00 | 11.86 |
| Low relative risk of multimorbidity | |||||||||
| Emotional, nervous, or psychiatric problems | 7.42 | 4.94 | 11.15 | 6.24 | 3.78 | 10.30 | 9.36 | 4.65 | 18.85 |
| Stomach or other digestive disease | 5.73 | 5.25 | 6.25 | 6.20 | 5.48 | 7.02 | 5.23 | 4.62 | 5.91 |
| Hypertension | 5.38 | 4.96 | 5.84 | 4.90 | 4.40 | 5.47 | 5.92 | 5.24 | 6.69 |
| Cancer or malignant tumour | 4.88 | 3.20 | 7.45 | 5.33 | 3.06 | 9.29 | 3.99 | 2.07 | 7.72 |
| Arthritis or rheumatism | 3.83 | 3.61 | 4.05 | 3.70 | 3.43 | 3.99 | 3.91 | 3.59 | 4.26 |