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Symptom Burden, Medication Detriment, and Support for the Use of the 15D Health-Related Quality of Life Instrument in a Chronic Pain Clinic Population
Table 3
Comorbidities by system (excluding 44 subjects reporting none).
| Diagnostic category | Diagnosis | No. of patients |
| Psychiatric | Depression | 9 | | Anxiety | 2 | | All psychiatric | | 11 |
| CNS | Stroke | 3 | | Migraine | 1 | | Restless leg syndrome | 1 | | Vertigo | 1 | | Glaucoma | 1 | | All CNS | | 7 |
| Cardiovascular | Hypertension | 11 | | Coronary disease | 2 | | Valvular disease | 2 | | All cardiovascular | | 15 |
| Respiratory | COPD | 2 | | Asthma | 1 | | Sleep Apnea | 1 | | All respiratory | | 4 |
| Gastrointestinal | Reflux/dyspepsia | 4 | | Inflammtory bowel disease | 3 | | Irritable bowel syndrome | 2 | | Fatty liver | 1 | | Gallstones | 1 | | Not specified | 1 | | All gastrointestinal | | 12 |
| Endocrine | Obesity | 7 | | Hypercholesterolemia | 4 | | Hypothyroidism | 3 | | Diabetes | 1 | | Osteoporosis | 1 | | All endocrine | | 16 |
| Renal | Chronic renal failure | 2 | | Kidney transplant | 1 | | All renal | | 3 |
| Infectious | Hepatitis C | 4 | | HIV | 1 | | All infectious | | 5 |
| Connective tissue/joint disorders | Osteoarthritis | 3 | | Dematomyositis | 1 | | Lupus | 1 | | Vascultis | 1 | | Congenital hip dislocation | 1 | | All connective tissue/joint | | 7 |
| Miscellaneous | Cancer in remission | 3 | | Former street drug user | 1 | | Data missing | 1 | | All miscellaneous | | 5 |
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