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Table 5 Occurrence of somatic comorbidities with at least one affective (F3) and anxiety (F4) diagnosis among older people with intellectual disability (ID) and the general population (gRef) based on the chapters of the ICD-10 coding system

From: The occurrence of comorbidities with affective and anxiety disorders among older people with intellectual disability compared with the general population: a register study

Chapter Somatic comorbidity At least one F3 diagnosis (n = 918) At least one F4 diagnosis (n = 825)
ID (n = 576) n(%) gRef (n = 342) n(%) ID v gRef OR (95% CI) ID (n = 471) n(%) gRef (n = 354) n(%) ID v gRef OR (95% CI)
I Certain infectious and parasitic diseases 68 (12%) 34 (10%) 1.21 (0.79–1.87) 52 (11%) 25 (7%) 1.63 (0.99–2.67)
II Neoplasms 71 (12%) 53 (16%) 0.77 (0.52–1.13) 39 (8%) 48 (14%) 0.58 (0.37–0.90)
III Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism 41 (7%) 31 (9%) 0.77 (0.47–1.25) 23 (5%) 24 (7%) 0.71 (0.39–1.27)
IV Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases 168 (29%) 112 (33%) 0.85 (0.63–1.12) 120 (26%) 91 (26%) 0.99 (0.72–1.36)
VI Diseases of the nervous system 170 (30%) 69 (20%) 1.66 (1.20–2.28) 138 (29%) 60 (17%) 2.03 (1.44–2.86)
VII Diseases of the eye and adnexa 117 (20%) 62 (18%) 1.15 (0.82–1.62) 89 (19%) 52 (15%) 1.35 (0.93–1.97)
VIII Diseases of the ear and mastoid process 24 (4%) 16 (5%) 0.89 (0.46–1.70) 22 (5%) 22 (6%) 0.74 (0.40–1.36)
IX Diseases of the circulatory system 159 (28%) 151 (44%) 0.49 (0.36–0.64) 134 (29%) 130 (37%) 0.69 (0.51–0.92)
X Diseases of the respiratory system 149 (26%) 104 (30%) 0.80 (0.60–1.07) 130 (28%) 109 (31%) 0.86 (0.63–1.16)
XI Diseases of the digestive system 188 (33%) 133 (39%) 0.76 (0.58–1.01) 172 (37%) 136 (38%) 0.92 (0.69–1.23)
XII Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue 37 (6%) 17 (5%) 1.31 (0.73–2.37) 26 (6%) 16 (5%) 1.23 (0.65–2.33)
XIII Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue 126 (22%) 134 (39%) 0.44 (0.32–0.58) 124 (26%) 141 (40%) 0.54 (0.40–0.72)
XIV Diseases of the genitourinary system 143 (25%) 65 (19%) 1.41 (1.01–1.96) 125 (27%) 58 (16%) 1.84 (1.30–2.61)
XVII Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities 39 (7%) < 5 NC* 31 (7%) < 5 NC*
XVIII Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified 251 (44%) 170 (50%) 0.79 (0.60–1.02) 236 (50%) 182 (51%) 0.95 (0.72–1.25
XIX Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes 280 (49%) 140 (41%) 1.37 (1.04–1.79) 220 (47%) 133 (38%) 1.46 (1.10–1.93)
  1. *NC (not calculated) indicates that one cell contains a value that is less than 5 or that there were zero observations
  2. Note. Statistically significant ORs are marked in bold
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