Table 1 The number of health records, disease and multimorbidity diagnoses, and characteristics of complete multimorbidity network and hub diseases’ associated network in the Chinese and UK inpatients
Chinese inpatients | UK inpatients | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Overall | Male | Female | Overall | Male | Female | |
Number of health records | 184,133 | 103,334 | 80,799 | 180,497 | 79,652 | 100,845 |
Number of diseases and diagnoses | 341/440,702 | 320/237,746 | 297/169,760 | 215/221,470 | 215/101,683 | 187/119,214 |
Number of inpatients with a single disease (% of the total number of inpatients) | 78,963 (42.88%) | 42,871 (41.49%) | 36,092 (44.67%) | 125,648 (69.61%) | 54,840 (68.85%) | 70,808 (70.21%) |
Number of inpatients with multimorbidity (≧ 2 conditions) (% of the total number of inpatients) | 105,170 (57.12%) | 60,463 (58.51%) | 44,707 (55.33%) | 54,849 (30.39%) | 25,812 (31.15%) | 30,037 (29.79%) |
Number of nodes and edges in the complete multimorbidity network | 341 1367 | 320 1179 | 297 990 | 215 467 | 215 438 | 187 377 |
Number of nodes and edges in hub diseases’ associated network (% of the complete multimorbidity network) | 193 (56.60%), 483 (35.33%) | 173 (54.06%) 410 (34.78%) | 160 (53.87%) 347 (35.05%) | 95 (44.19%) 176 (37.69%) | 73 (33.95%) 154 (35.16%) | 79 (42.25%) 141 (37.40%) |
Frequency of comorbidity patterns in the complete multimorbidity network | 287,195 | 174,985 | 99,086 | 50,375 | 24,180 | 25,508 |
Frequency of comorbidity patterns in hub diseases’ associated network (% of the complete multimorbidity network) | 196,064 (68.26%) | 128,025 (73.16%) | 64,403 (65.00%) | 28,014 (55.61%) | 13,094 (54.15%) | 14,034 (55.02%) |