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Table 7 List of comorbidity categories

From: Associations between chronic comorbidity and exacerbation risk in primary care patients with COPD

Categories of chronic disease

Disease

Cardiovascular

Hypertension

Coronary heart disease

Congenital cardiovascular anomaly

Heart failure

Stroke & transient ischaemic attack

Atrial fibrillation

Heart valve disease

Venous insufficiency

Peripheral vascular disease

Respiratory

COPD

Asthma

Sleep apnea syndrome

Chronic sinusitis

Other chronic pulmonary disease

Bronchiectasis/chronic bronchitis

Mental Health

Depression

Anxiety disorder

Alcohol problems

Other psychoactive substance misuse

Schrizophrenia/non-organic psychosis/bipolar disorder

Anorextia or bulimia

Personality disorder

Learning disability’/Mental retardation

Musculoskeletal

Rheumatoid arthritis, other inflammatory polyarthropathies & systemic connective tissue disorders

Gout

Osteoporosis/osteopenie

Osteoarthritis

Eye and Ear

Hearing loss

Glaucoma

Blindness & low vision

Urogenital (Male and female)

Chronic kidney diease

Glomerulonephritis/nephrosis

Recurrent urinary tract infection

Prostate disorders

Skin

Eczema

Psoriasis

Other chronic skin disease/neoplasm (sub)cutis

Digestive

Diverticular disease of intestine

Dyspepsia, Gastroesophageal reflux

Irritable bowel syndrom

Inflammatory bowel disease

Coeliakie

Chronic liver disease

Endocrine, metabolic and nutrition

Underfeeding/vitamine deficiency

Diabetes

Dislipidemia

Obesity

Thyroid disorder

Neurological

Dementia

Epilepsy

Migraine

Parkinson's disease

Multiple sclerosis

Blood(forming organs) and Lymphatics

Anaemia

Blood (forming organs) and lymphatics disorder

Infectious

Viral hepatitis

HIV/AIDS

Non-pulmonary cancer

Testis Cancer

Cancer oropharynx, oesophageal, stomach

Cancer Colorectal

Pancreatic cancer

Laryngeal/troat cancer

Breast cancer

Ovarian cancer

Endometrial cancer

Uterine cervical cancer

Prostate cancer

Bladder cancer

Genitourinary cancer, other

Brain cancer (recall: Nervous system cancer)

Hodgkin disease

Leukaemia

Lymphoma/multiple myeloma/other blood cancer

Metastases; unknown origin

Carcinoma, other

Skin cancer

Pulmonary cancer

Pulmonary cancer