We identified two multimorbidity patterns according to the eigenvalues of the factor analysis and the results of the scree-test, which explained 62.2% of the total variance (Table 4). The KMO value was 0.61, which was considered acceptable adequacy. Three conditions were less associated with the two patterns, A and B, because of factor loading < 0.25 (hearing impairment, vision impairments and cancer). With the threshold of 0.25, the variable respiratory impairments were correlated with both patterns (factor loading 0.26 and 0.30).