Table 1.
Trends in the prevalence of diagnosed chronic diseases and multimorbidity in general practices over the period 2004–2011.
Fig 1.
The prevalence of at least one chronic disease (upper Fig) and the prevalence of multimorbidity (lower Fig) in the general population of 25 years and older, over the period 2001–2011.
Legend: grey solid line = GP registered diagnoses; grey dotted line = GP registered diagnoses, prevalence standardized for the Dutch population in 2011; black solid line = self-reported chronic diseases; black dotted line = self-reported chronic diseases, prevalence standardized for the Dutch population in 2011.
Table 2.
Trends in the prevalence of self-reported chronic diseases and multimorbidity in health surveys over the period 2001–2011.
Table 3.
Proportion of the trend in the prevalence of chronic diseases and multimorbidity attributed to ageing of the population, retrieved from general practices over the period 2004–2011 and health surveys over the period 2001–2011.