Table 2

Prevalence of the 60 chronic diseases included in the study in individuals aged 65–94 years (n=916 619, Catalonia, 2012)

Rank	Chronic conditions	Frequency	Percentage (%)	All diseases included	1%	2%
1	Hypertension	650 899	71
2	Dyslipidaemia	466 585	50.9
3	Osteoarthritis and other degenerative joint diseases	300 803	32.8
4	Obesity	262 888	28.7
5	Diabetes	230 460	25.1
6	Anaemia	167 577	18.3
7	Cataract and other lens diseases	156 622	17.1
8	Chronic kidney diseases	153 756	16.8
9	Prostate diseases	153 635	16.8
10	Osteoporosis	151 847	16.6
11	Depression and mood diseases	148 751	16.2
12	Solid neoplasms	137 045	15
13	Colitis and related diseases	131 512	14.4
14	Venous and lymphatic diseases	126 997	13.9
15	Other musculoskeletal and joint diseases	124 765	13.6
16	Dorsopathies	124 603	13.6
17	Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform diseases	123 395	13.5
18	COPD, emphysema, chronic bronchitis	109 603	12
19	Ischaemic heart disease	95 434	10.4
20	Deafness, hearing impairment	90 261	9.9
21	Sleep disorders	88 739	9.7
22	Thyroid diseases	88 445	9.7
23	Other genitourinary diseases	85 468	9.3
24	Cerebrovascular disease	80 264	8.8
25	Atrial fibrillation	80 247	8.8
26	Oesophagus, stomach and duodenum diseases	80 043	8.7
27	Heart failure	74 077	8.1
28	Other eye diseases	68 939	7.5
29	Glaucoma	66 162	7.2
30	Inflammatory arthropathies	62 450	6.8
31	Dementia	59 213	6.5
32	Cardiac valve diseases	52 100	5.7
33	Peripheral neuropathy	49 127	5.4
34	Other psychiatric and behavioural diseases	46 841	5.1
35	Asthma	43 663	4.8
36	Allergy	40 394	4.4
37	Autoimmune diseases	39 350	4.3
38	Ear, nose, throat diseases	38 752	4.2
39	Peripheral vascular disease	30 674	3.4
40	Other neurological diseases	28 541	3.1
41	Chronic pancreas, biliary tract and gall bladder diseases	27 321	3
42	Migraine and facial pain syndromes	25 999	2.8
43	Bradycardias and conduction diseases	25 476	2.8
44	Chronic liver diseases	22 633	2.5
45	Other digestive diseases	22 022	2.4
46	Parkinson and parkinsonism	20 833	2.3
47	Other metabolic diseases	18 997	2.1
48	Other cardiovascular diseases	16 833	1.8
49	Other skin diseases	15 363	1.7
50	Chronic ulcer of the skin	13 869	1.5
51	Blood and blood-forming organ diseases	13 575	1.5
52	Other respiratory diseases	9974	1.1
53	Epilepsy	8981	1
54	Haematological neoplasms	8174	0.9
55	Chronic infectious diseases	6647	0.7
56	Inflammatory bowel diseases	5549	0.6
57	Schizophrenia and delusional diseases	4792	0.5
58	Blindness, visual impairment	4772	0.5
59	Multiple sclerosis	576	0.1
60	Chromosomal abnormalities	77	0

In the last three columns, list of diseases was included by prevalence cut-off (All, 1%, 2%).
COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.