The association between multimorbidity and health-related quality of life: a cross-sectional survey among community middle-aged and elderly residents in southern China

Table 4 The associations between co-occuring chronic diseases

Type of disease	Chronic pain^b		Bone disease^b		Diabetes mellitus^b		Dyslipidemia^b		Gastroenteritis^b		Gout^b
Type of disease	OR	AOR	OR	AOR	OR	AOR	OR	AOR	OR	AOR	OR	AOR
Hypertension^a	1.54^c	1.28^c	1.77^c	1.32^c	4.83^c	3.82^c	3.93^c	3.80^c	0.99	0.96	3.20^c	2.76^c
Chronic pain^a			4.25^c	3.64^c	1.06	0.90	2.28^c	2.18^c	3.45^c	3.46^c	1.82^c	1.78^c
Bone disease^a					1.41^c	1.11	2.27^c	2.12^c	2.54^c	2.56^c	2.31^c	2.21^c
Diabetes mellitus^a							3.82^c	3.48^c	0.67^c	0.66^c	1.60^c	1.37^c
Dyslipidemia^a									1.83^c	1.82^c	4.06^c	3.80^c
Gastroenteritis^a											1.79^c	1.77^c

Logistic regression models were respectively built and gender, age, education level, marriage state, and employment were adjusted in the logistic regression model
^a Dependent variable; ^b Independent variable; ^c significant at 0.05

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