Treatment
Other Comorbidities
Table 26. Ten Most Common Co-Occurring Chronic
Conditions Among Medicare Beneficiaries With
HF (N=4,947,918), 2011
Beneficiaries Age ≥65 y
(N = 4,376,150)a
Beneficiaries Age <65 y
(N = 571,768)b
N
%
N
%
Hypertension
3,685,373
84.2
Hypertension
461,235
80.7
Ischemic heart
disease
3,145,718
71.9
Ischemic heart
disease
365,889
64.0
Hyperlipidemia
2,623,601
60.0
Diabetes
338,687
59.2
Anemia
2,200,674
50.3
Hyperlipidemia
325,498
56.9
Diabetes
2,027,875
46.3
Anemia
284,102
49.7
Arthritis
1,901,447
43.5
Chronic kidney
disease
257,015
45.0
Chronic kidney
disease
1,851,812
42.3
Depression
207,082
36.2
COPD
1,311,118
30.0
Arthritis
201,964
35.3
AF
1,247,748
28.5
COPD
191,016
33.4
Alzheimer
disease/dementia
1,207,704
27.6
Asthma
88,816
15.5
Mean number of conditions, 6.1; median, 6.
Mean number of conditions, 5.5; median, 5.
Data source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrative claims data, January 2011 to
December 2011, from the Chronic Condition Warehouse (CCW), ccwdata.org.
a
b
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