van Baal et al. BMC Public Health 2011, 11:163 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/11/163 Page 9 of 11 Table 3 stochastic ranking of diseases in terms of incidence in 2007 Probability to rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 1 Coronary heart disease 0.30 0.34 0.22 0.11 0.03 2 Cataracts 0.22 0.43 0.28 0.07 0.01 3 Diabetes 0.04 0.11 0.33 0.37 0.14 0.01 4 Arthritis 0.38 0.04 0.05 0.08 0.11 0.08 0.05 0.08 0.06 0.03 0.02 0.01 5 Hearing impairments 0.05 0.07 0.11 0.28 0.34 0.12 0.02 0.01 6 COPD 0.01 0.02 0.09 0.27 0.38 0.14 0.08 0.02 7 Heart failure 0.05 0.25 0.44 0.21 0.03 8 Stroke 0.02 0.11 0.28 0.45 0.13 0.01 9 Osteoporosis 0.01 0.02 0.04 0.05 0.10 0.35 0.21 0.13 0.07 0.02 0.01 10 Dementia 0.01 0.01 0.05 0.28 0.33 0.20 0.09 0.02 0.00 11 Rheumatoid arthritis 0.08 0.30 0.44 0.16 0.02 0.00 12 Macular degeneration 0.01 0.06 0.10 0.12 0.22 0.17 0.08 0.16 0.06 0.01 13 Glaucoma 0.02 0.09 0.40 0.37 0.08 0.04 0.00 14 Epilepsy 0.05 0.30 0.49 0.15 0.01 15 Inflammatory bowel diseases 0.01 0.08 0.31 0.57 0.03 16 Parkinson 0.05 0.79 0.15 17 Schizophrenia 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.03 0.11 0.50 0.33 18 Multiple sclerosis 0.33 0.67 Diseases are ordered by rank as obtained by point estimates: bold face reflects the disease that is most likely to be at that position (i.e. the maximum value of each column); grey shade reflects at which position the disease is most likely to be ranked (i.e. the maximum value of each row). 11 Table 4 stochastic ranking of diseases in terms of prevalence 1/1/2007 Probability to rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 1 Diabetes 0.34 0.40 0.19 0.07 2 Arthritis 0.42 0.12 0.09 0.32 0.06 3 Coronary heart disease 0.22 0.30 0.26 0.21 0.01 4 Hearing impairments 0.02 0.18 0.44 0.34 0.01 5 Cataracts 0.01 0.01 0.06 0.82 0.10 0.00 6 COPD 0.10 0.85 0.04 0.01 7 Stroke 0.03 0.75 0.20 0.02 8 Osteoporosis 0.01 0.10 0.34 0.32 0.14 0.06 0.03 9 Rheumatoid arthritis 0.01 0.10 0.34 0.33 0.13 0.06 0.02 10 Heart failure 0.08 0.21 0.35 0.24 0.12 11 Epilepsy 0.03 0.12 0.33 0.38 0.14 12 Glaucoma 0.05 0.26 0.68 0.01 13 Dementia 0.01 0.41 0.29 0.22 0.05 0.01 14 Inflammatory bowel 0.39 0.40 0.20 0.01 15 Macular degeneration 0.18 0.30 0.43 0.08 0.01 16 Schizophrenia 0.01 0.15 0.83 0.01 17 Parkinson 0.02 0.92 0.06 18 Multiple sclerosis 0.06 0.94 Diseases are ordered by rank as obtained by point estimates: bold face reflects the disease that is most likely to be at that position (i.e. the maximum value of each column): grey shade reflects at which position the disease is most likely to be ranked (i.e. the maximum value of each row).