Multimorbidity in Patients with Chronic Liver Disease: A Population-Based Study in the EpiChron Cohort, Spain.

ABSTRACT: Background/Objectives: Chronic liver disease (CLD) is highly relevant in clinical practice due to its increasing incidence and associated mortality. We aimed to exhaustively characterize the multimorbidity of patients with CLD. Methods: This is a retrospective observational study of patients aged 18 years and older with a diagnosis of CLD in 2015 in the EpiChron Cohort (Spain). We analyzed the prevalence of comorbidities according to sex and age, conducted a logistic regression analysis with CLD as the independent variable and each of the comorbidities as dependent variables to obtain odds ratios (OR) adjusted for age and sex, and performed an exploratory factor analysis to identify the presence of multimorbidity patterns. Results: A total of 6836 adults had a diagnosi

SUBMITTER: Moreno-Juste A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11642432 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature