Comorbidity and polypharmacy in chronic heart failure:a large cross-sectional study in primary care [PDF]
Background: Comorbidity is common in heart failure, but previous prevalence estimates have been based on a limited number of conditions using mainly non-primary care data sources.
Baron Franco, Bosco +5 more
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Multimorbidity, physical frailty, and self-rated health in older patients with atrial fibrillation
Background Holistic care models emphasize management of comorbid conditions to improve patient-reported outcomes in treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF).
Hawa O. Abu +10 more
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The Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial (DiRECT): protocol for a cluster randomised trial [PDF]
Background: Despite improving evidence-based practice following clinical guidelines to optimise drug therapy, Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) still exerts a devastating toll from vascular complications and premature death.
Adamson, Ashley +19 more
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Continued efforts to translate diabetes cardiovascular outcome trials into clinical practice [PDF]
Diabetic patients suffer from a high rate of cardiovascular events and such risk increases with HbA1c. However, lowering HbA1c does not appear to yield the same benefit on macrovascular endpoints, as observed for microvascular endpoints. As the number of
Avogaro, Angelo +4 more
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Accelerometer assessed moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and successful ageing: results from the Whitehall II study. [PDF]
Physical activity is key for successful ageing, but questions remain regarding the optimal physical activity pattern. We examined the cross-sectional association between physical activity and successful ageing using data on 3,749 participants (age rangeâ€
Elbaz, A +5 more
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Epidemiology, mortality, and health service use of local-level multimorbidity patterns in South Spain [PDF]
Multimorbidity –understood as the occurrence of chronic diseases together–represents a major challenge for healthcare systems due to its impact on disability, quality of life, increased use of services and mortality. However, despite the global need to
Alvarez Galvez, Javier +4 more
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Impact of socioeconomic deprivation on rate and cause of death in severe mental illness [PDF]
Background: Socioeconomic status has important associations with disease-specific mortality in the general population. Although individuals with Severe Mental Illnesses (SMI) experience significant premature mortality, the relationship between ...
AC Phillips +47 more
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Association of cardiometabolic multimorbidity pattern with dietary factors among adults in South Korea [PDF]
Abstract Backgrounds Globally, cardiometabolic multimorbidity pattern (CMP) is a complexed chronic health status which shorter the life expectancy compared with single disease in adults. We aimed to identify multimorbidity patterns in Korean adults to clarify the associations between dietary factors and CMP. Methods Nationally representative
Dawoon Jeong +4 more
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ObjectiveThis study aimed to explore the association between the Chinese visceral adiposity index (CVAI) and cardiometabolic multimorbidity in middle-aged and older Chinese adults.MethodsThe data used in this study were obtained from a national cohort ...
Xiaomei Ye +5 more
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Social determinants of multimorbidity patterns: A systematic review
Social determinants of multimorbidity are poorly understood in clinical practice. This review aims to characterize the different multimorbidity patterns described in the literature while identifying the social and behavioral determinants that may affect ...
Javier Álvarez-Gálvez +6 more
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