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Table 2 List of keywords for each detected disease in the Italian surveillance system PASSI used in the first step of Fig. 3

From: A novel comorbidity index in Italy based on diseases detected by the surveillance system PASSI and the Global Burden of Diseases disability weights

Disease

Keywords

Kidney failure

renal, kidney, nephritic, intrarenal, nephrotic, nephric, bladder

Bronchitis, emphysema, respiratory failure

bronchitis, pneumonia, sinusitis, emphysema, rhinitis, COPD

Myocardial infarction, cardiac ischemia, coronary artery disease

myocardium, cardiac, coronary, artery, ischemia, ischaemia, ischemic, cardio, cardiovascular, cardial, myocardial, coronal

Tumor (including leukemias and lymphomas)

tumors, tumos, cancers, cancer, carcinomia, neoplasm, malignancy, leukemia, lymphoma, blood, lymphomas, lymphoma, hogkin, myeloma, sarcoma, B-cell, osteosarcoma, myelodysplasia

Chronic liver disease, cirrhosis

liver, hepatic, pancreas, stomach sweetbread, cirrhosis, cirrhotic, chronic, fibrosis, pancreatitis, liverwort, biliary

Stroke or cerebral ischemia

stroke, apoplexy, cerebrovascular, cva, ischemia, ischaemia, vasospasm, hypoxia,reperfusion, anoxia, infarction, dysrhythmia, infarct, hypoperfusion, myocardium, hypoxia, infarction, ischemic

Other heart diseases (e.g., valvulopathy decompensation)

heart, valvulopathy, valvular, valve, valvulopathies, valves

Bronchial asthma

asthma, bronchial, bronchitis, suffocative catarrh, allergy

Arthrosis or Arthritis (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis, gout, lupus, fibromyalgia)

arthrosis, arthritis, Osteoarthritis, Arthroses, ankylosis, osteoarthrosis, arthropathy, osteochondrosis, osteophyte, rheumatoid, rheumatoid, gout, lupus, fibromyalgia, sclerosis, polyarthritis