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Table 1 Clinical clusters of chronic diseases

From: Prevalence and patterns of multimorbidity among linguistic groups of patients receiving home care in Ontario: a retrospective cohort study

Functional Cluster

Chronic disease

C1. Cancer

All Cancers

C2. Cardio-Respiratory

AMI, Arrhythmia, Asthma, CHF, Coronary Heart Disease, Hypertension, COPD

C3. Mental disorders

Mood, anxiety, depression and other nonpsychotic disorders, Other mental health conditions

C4. Metabolic-GI-Renal

Diabetes, IBD, Renal disease

C5. Muscle-skeletal

Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid arthritis, Other Arthritis (Synovitis, Fibrositis, Connective tissue disorders, Ankylosing spondylitis, Gout Traumatic arthritis, pyogenic arthritis, Joint derangement, Dupuytren's contracture, Other MSK disorders), Osteoporosis

C6. Dementia

Dementia

C7. Stroke

Stroke (excluding transient ischemic attack)

  1. AMI acute myocardial infarction, CHF congestive health failure, COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, IBD inflammatory bowel disease, RA rheumatoid arthritis, MSK Muscle-skeletal