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Experiences of healthcare and support for people with multimorbidity approaching the end of life
• Background: There are increasing numbers of people living with and dying from multimorbidity – defined as the co-existence of two or more long-term conditions.
Bowers, Sarah
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Rheumatic diseases and multimorbidity
Terapevticheskii arkhiv, 2015 In the past decade, investigators' undeniable and justified interest has not been fading in comorbidities in the presence of rheumatic diseases. The terms "comorbidity" and "multimorbidity" are frequently and not always consciously used as interinterchangeable, confusing the terminology and accordingly the elaboration of strategies for further ...
E L Nasonov, A V Gordeev, E A Galushko
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Keep it Simple? Predicting Primary Health Care Costs with Measures of Morbidity and Multimorbidity [PDF]
In this paper we investigate the relationship between patients’ primary care costs (consultations, tests, drugs) and their age, gender, deprivation and alternative measures of their morbidity and multimorbidity.
Chris Salisbury +5 more
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Archives of Public HealthBackground Multimorbidity has become an increasingly pressing public health challenge in ageing societies, particularly with respect to psychological and cognitive conditions that have long been neglected. Our study describes temporal changes in patterns
Lin Sun +3 more
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Prevalence of Multimorbidity in Lithuania: Insights from National Health Insurance Fund Data
Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease(1) Background: As the burden of multimorbidity is increasing worldwide, little is known about its prevalence in Lithuania. We aimed to estimate the prevalence of chronic conditions and multimorbidity among Lithuanian adults and assess their impact on ...
Dovilė Ramanauskaitė +3 more
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Modeling the spectrum and determinants of multimorbidity risk among older adults in India.
PLoS ONEBackgroundIndia is passing through a parallel phase of demographic and epidemiological transition coupled with the shifting burden of multimorbidity. Unhealthy ageing and escalating morbidity burden have been identified as key drivers of this shifting ...
Ajay Kumar, Bharti Singh
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, 2018 It has been estimated that half of the patients at general practice encounters, and one-quarter of the Australian population, have two or more diagnosed chronic conditions. This is of concern as patients with multiple chronic conditions have been shown to have a decreased quality of life, higher use of health services and increased risk of mortality ...
Christopher Harrison, Niro Siriwardena
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Sex differences in multimorbidity: a systematic review and meta-analysis
BMC Public HealthBackground Emerging evidence suggests that sex and gender may influence the development, expression, and impact of multimorbidity through a range of mechanisms.
Tu Nguyen +3 more
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Respiratory ResearchIdiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is an interstitial lung disease with chronic progressive fibrosis of unknown etiology; it is characterized by persistent fibrosis of the lungs accompanied by irreversible lung function decline and high mortality rates.
Yuanyuan Zhang +4 more
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Experimental GerontologyObjective: To investigate the relationship among multimorbidity, depressive symptoms, and cognitive frailty (CF) in the elderly, and to explore the mediating effect of depressive symptoms between multimorbidity and CF in the elderly.
Jing Lv, Fengmei Huang, Yumei Shi
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