Here are statistics on the top 10 most common principle diagnoses among 65-74-year-old hospitalized patients, as determined by the diagnosis rate per 1,000 hospitalized patients within that age range, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, Nationwide Inpatient Sample, 2007.
| Principal diagnoses |
Rate per 1,000 population |
| Coronary atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) | 13.6 |
| Osteoarthritis | 13.3 |
| Congestive heart failure | 10.7 |
| Pneumonia | 10.1 |
| Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | 8.6 |
| Cardiac dysrhythmias (irregular heart beat) | 8.6 |
| Acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) | 6.7 |
| Complication of medical device, implant or graft | 6.7 |
| Septicemia (blood infection) | 6.7 |
| Nonspecific chest pain | 6.3 |
Source: AHRQ’s HCUPnet.
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