Lifestyle factors related to prevalent chronic disease multimorbidity: A population-based cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Multimorbidity is associated with poor quality of life, polypharmacy, health care costs and mortality, with those affected potentially benefitting from a healthy lifestyle. We assessed a comprehensive set of lifestyle factors in relation to multimorbidity with major chronic diseases.

Methods

This cross-sectional study utilised baseline data for adults from the prospective Lifelines Cohort in the north of the Netherlands (N = 79,345). We defined multimorbidity as the co-existence of two or more chronic diseases (i.e. cardiovascular disease, cancer, respiratory disease, type 2 diabetes) and evaluated factors in six lifestyle domains (nutrition, physical (in)activity, substance abuse, sleep, stress, relationships) among groups by the number of chronic diseases (≥2, 1

SUBMITTER: Niebuur J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10365307 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature