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Table 3 Diagnoses groups to ensure respondents with multimorbidity (diagnosis from more than one group)

From: Measuring needs-based quality of life and self-perceived health inequity in patients with multimorbidity: investigating psychometric measurement properties of the MultiMorbidity Questionnaire (MMQ) using primarily Rasch models

Cardiovascular

 Heart thrombus

 Arteriosclerosis in the heart

 Cardiospasm

Diabetes and sequelae

 Diabetes

 Kidney disease

Lung

 Asthma

 Chronic bronchitis, smoker’s lungs (emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)

Cancer

Psychical

  Anxiety

  Depression

 Musculoskeletal

  Osteoarthritis

  Arthritis

  Ruptured disc or similar

  1. Inspired by the definition of multimorbidity by Willadsen et al. [3]