Accounting for multimorbidity can affect the estimation of the Burden of Disease: a comparison of approaches

Table 1 Overview of the 25 health conditions included in the analysis: prevalence, Disability Weight (DW), Years Lived with a Disability (YLD), and Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALY), 2011 [34]

	Prevalence	DW	YLD	DALY
Arthrosis	7.12 %	0.103	122,423	123,509
Anxiety disorders	5.77 %	0.187	180,220	180,272
Diabetes mellitus	5.00 %	0.198	165,150	194,312
Hearing disorders	4.86 %	0.109	88,344	88,344
Mood disorders	2.31 %	0.425	164,025	164,592
Neck and back pain	3.91 %	0.236	153,930	154,499
Coronary heart disease	3.62 %	0.288	174,090	282,834
Asthma	2.86 %	0.080	38,192	39,244
COPD	2.17 %	0.314	113,600	177,809
Contact eczema	1.94 %	0.070	22,720	22,720
Visual impairments	1.81 %	0.137	41,348	41,375
Cardiac arrhythmias	1.17 %	0.154	30,142	48,305
Stroke	1.11 %	0.609	113,147	191,320
Breast cancer	0.60 %	0.265	26,459	88,019
Heart failure	0.85 %	0.154	21,809	67,660
Intellectual disabilities	0.77 %	0.430	55,599	56,929
Personality disorders	0.60 %	0.273	27,438	27,438
Colon cancer	0.36 %	0.294	17,667	87,177
Prostate cancer	0.40 %	0.231	15,271	39,403
Dementia	0.48 %	0.678	54,744	112,130
Valve problems	0.46 %	0.118	9091	28,346
Skin cancer	0.24 %	0.070	2768	19,446
Lung cancer	0.12 %	0.285	5845	169,120
Parkinson’s disease	0.19 %	0.497	15,401	25,657
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma	0.13 %	0.233	4910	20,749

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