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

Table 2

Age-adjusted incidence rates per 100,000 of geriatric diseases with standard errors (in brackets).

Sex	Year	Lung cancer	Colon cancer	Breast cancer	Prostate cancer	Melanoma	Heart failure	Alzheimer’s disease	Parkinson’s disease	Diabetes	Asthma
Males	1994	616	314		1146	163	1864	199	217	724	201
		(52)	(36)		(75)	(25)	(87)	(26)	(28)	(59)	(29)
Males	1999	491	311		924	117	1437	255	195	841	247
		(46)	(35)		(67)	(20)	(76)	(29)	(29)	(66)	(33)
Male	Combined	554	312		1033	139	1647	228	204	779	223
		(35)	(25)		(50)	(16)	(58)	(20)	(20)	(44)	(22)
Female	1994	293	262	555		53	1540	210	143	697	303
		(29)	(27)	(38)		(11)	(61)	(21)	(19)	(44)	(30)
Female	1999	331	196	508		71	1313	290	134	803	258
		(32)	(23)	(41)		(14)	(59)	(25)	(18)	(51)	(29)
Female	Combined	312	230	530		61	1426	250	139	744	282
		(21)	(18)	(28)		(9)	(42)	(16)	(13)	(33)	(21)
Total	1994	421	283			96	1667	205	173	707	263
		(27)	(22)			(12)	(50)	(16)	(16)	(35)	(21)
Total	1999	397	243			90	1366	276	159	818	253
		(27)	(20)			(12)	(47)	(19)	(16)	(40)	(22)
Total	Combined	410	264			92	1516	241	165	758	258
		(19)	(15)			(8)	(34)	(13)	(11)	(27)	(15)