Fun With Statistics

Health statistics have been revealed for the seven most common chronic medical conditions in New Zealand (The Dominion Post, September 5, 2015).

I tick the box on six items, as follows:

• Arthritis (16% of the population)
• Asthma (11%)
• Diabetes (5.5%)
• Heart disease (4.6%)
• High blood pressure (16%)
• High cholesterol (11%).

If you add those together, does that mean my condition represents 64.1% of the population? LOL.