Longitudinal clustering of health behaviours and their association with multimorbidity in older adults in England: A latent class analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health-risk behaviours such as smoking, unhealthy nutrition, alcohol consumption, and physical inactivity (termed SNAP behaviours) are leading risk factors for multimorbidity and tend to cluster (i.e. occur in specific combinations within distinct subpopulations). However, little is known about how these clusters change with age in older adults, and whether and how cluster membership is associated with multimorbidity.

Methods

Repeated measures latent class analysis using data from Waves 4-8 of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA; n = 4759) identified clusters of respondents with common patterns of SNAP behaviours over time. Disease status (from Wave 9) was used to assess disorders of eight body systems, multimorbidity, and complex multimorbidity. Multin

SUBMITTER: Suhag A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10810435 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature