Association between potential predictors and the incidence of multimorbidity in persons with and without one chronic disease at baseline.

Odds Ratio (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) from multivariate logistic regression models.

*the odd ratios presented are for the continuous and ordinal variables the odds ratio for an increase of one unit/level unless stated otherwise and for the dichotomized variables for presented dichotomy.

**p<0.05.

***p<0.10.

ADL, activities of daily living (0–6, higher score indicates worse function).

BMI, Body Mass Index.

CPRS, Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Severity (0–48, higher score indicates more depressive symptoms).

ESR, erythrocyte sedimentation rate.

MMSE, mini-mental state examination (0–30, higher score indicates better function).

WBC, white blood count.