Population-Based Analysis of Incidence Rates of Cancer and Noncancer Chronic Diseases in the US Elderly Using NLTCS/Medicare-Linked Database

Table 1

The total numbers of individuals followedup for onsets of chronic diseases (i) in two waves of NLTCS-M, that is, waves formed in 1994 and 1999, (ii) without individuals who had an additional coverage by the Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) and prevalent cases, and (iii) with the registered onsets.

	Lung cancer	Colon cancer	Breast cancer*	Prostate cancer**	Melanoma	Heart failure	Alzheimer’s disease	Parkinson’s disease	Diabetes	Asthma
Total in two waves	34077	34077	20771	13306	34077	34077	34077	34077	34077	34077
Total without HMO	27607	27607	16985	10622	27607	27607	27607	27607	27607	27607
Total without HMO; and prevalent cases	27480	27313	16494	9990	27509	25921	27431	27378	25399	27099
The number of onsets	752	525	546	605	189	3046	687	331	1231	415

*Females only.
**Males only.