Table 2 Number and percentage of single diseases and multimorbidity stratified by sex and birth phases for the whole participants (n = 3,377) from KORA-Age 1 and KORA-Age 3
Disease | Total (3,377) | Sex | Birth phases | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Male (1,616) | Female (1,761) | P-value | Pre-war (684) | Early war (1,236) | Late war (283) | Famine (574) | After famine (600) | P-value | ||
Multimorbidity (MM) | 1667 (49.4%) | 788 (48.8%) | 879 (49.9%) | 0.503 | 370 (54.1%) | 561 (45.4%) | 176 (62.2%) | 310 (54.0%) | 250 (41.7%) | < 0.001 |
Lung | 343 (10.2%) | 157 (9.7%) | 186 (10.6%) | 0.415 | 61 (8.9%) | 109 (8.8%) | 35 (12.4%) | 71 (12.4%) | 67 (11.2%) | 0.065 |
Joint diseases( Arthritis. Rheumatic) | 349 (10.3%) | 119 (7.4%) | 230 (13.1%) | < 0.001 | 74 (10.8%) | 138 (11.2%) | 31 (11.0%) | 52 (9.1%) | 54 (9.0%) | < 0.001 |
Cancer | 145 (4.3%) | 74 (4.6%) | 71 (4.0%) | 0.433 | 25 (3.7%) | 55 (4.4%) | 13 (4.6%) | 27 (4.7%) | 25 (4.2%) | 0.898 |
Gastrointestinal | 270 (8%) | 109 (6.7%) | 161 (9.1%) | 0.0101 | 61 (8.9%) | 97 (7.8%) | 21 (7.4%) | 49 (8.5%) | 42 (7.0%) | 0.735 |
Heart diseases | 637 (18.9%) | 371 (23%) | 266 (15.1%) | < 0.001 | 149 (21.8%) | 216 (17.5%) | 65 (23.0%) | 121 (21.1%) | 86 (14.3%) | < 0.001 |
Stroke | 165 (4.9%) | 110 (6.8%) | 55 (3.1%) | < 0.001 | 34 (5.0%) | 52 (4.2%) | 27 (9.5%) | 32 (5.6%) | 20 (3.3%) | < 0.001 |
Kidney | 117 (3.5%) | 62 (3.8%) | 55 (3.1%) | 0.257 | 30 (4.4%) | 34 (2.8%) | 18 (6.4%) | 24 (4.2%) | 11 (1.8%) | 0.002 |
Liver | 82 (2.4%) | 43 (2.7%) | 39 (2.2%) | 0.400 | 15 (2.2%) | 29 (2.3%) | 9 (3.2%) | 15 (2.6%) | 14 (2.3%) | 0.913 |
Diabetes mellitus | 504 (14.9%) | 276 (17.1%) | 228 (12.9%) | < 0.001 | 118 (17.3%) | 165 (13.3%) | 48 (17.0%) | 95 (16.6%) | 78 (13.0%) | 0.056 |
Neurological disease | 103 (3.1%) | 51 (3.2%) | 52 (3.0%) | 0.731 | 22 (3.2%) | 31 (2.5%) | 10 (3.5%) | 20 (3.5%) | 20 (3.3%) | 0.727 |
Hypertension | 1914 (56.7%) | 910 (56.3%) | 1004 (57.0%) | 0.626 | 396 (57.9%) | 673 (54.4%) | 179 (63.3%) | 344 (59.9%) | 322 (53.7%) | 0.013 |
Eye disease | 866 (25.6%) | 364 (22.5%) | 502 (28.5%) | < 0.001 | 202 (29.5%) | 285 (23.1%) | 103 (36.4%) | 164 (28.6%) | 112 (18.7%) | < 0.001 |
Anxiety | 192 (5.7%) | 55 (3.4%) | 137 (7.8%) | < 0.001 | 55 (8.0%) | 87 (7.0%) | 9 (3.2%) | 24 (4.2%) | 17 (2.8%) | < 0.001 |
Depression | 44 (1.3%) | 16 (1.0%) | 28 (1.6%) | 0.131 | 12 (1.8%) | 15 (1.2%) | 3 (1.1%) | 9 (1.6%) | 5 (0.8%) | 0.616 |