Risk of developing multimorbidity across all ages in an historical cohort study: differences by sex and ethnicity.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To study the incidence of de novo multimorbidity across all ages in a geographically defined population with an emphasis on sex and ethnic differences.

Design

Historical cohort study.

Setting

All persons residing in Olmsted County, Minnesota, USA on 1 January 2000 who had granted permission for their records to be used for research (n=123 716).

Participants

We used the Rochester Epidemiology Project medical records-linkage system to identify all of the county residents. We identified and removed from the cohort all persons who had developed multimorbidity before 1 January 2000 (baseline date), and we followed the cohort over 14 years (1 January 2000 through 31 December 2013).

Main outcome measures

Incident multimorbidity was defined as the deve

SUBMITTER: St Sauver JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4322195 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature