Living with a Chronic Diagnosis : Table 1

Table 1: Shows the patients’ sex, age, type of chronic disease and the duration of the disease.

	Patient 1	Patient 2	Patient 3	Patient 4	Patient 5	Patient 6
Sex	Man	Woman	Woman	Man	Woman	Woman
Age/years	50	47	59	60	59	83
Diagnosis	Type 2 diabetes	Type 2 diabetes	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)	Familial hyper cholesterol e-mia (FH)	Ischemic heart disease COPD	Hypertension
Year of debut	2008	2008	1999	1980	2013	2012