Sex-specific intergenerational trends in morbidity burden and multimorbidity status in Hong Kong community: an age-period-cohort analysis of repeated population surveys.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Prevalence of multimorbidity has been increasing worldwide. While population ageing undoubtedly contributes, secular trends have seldom been decomposed into age, period and cohort effects to investigate intergenerational differences. This study examines the birth cohort effect on morbidity burden and multimorbidity in Hong Kong community.

Design

Sex-specific age-period-cohort analysis with repeated cross-sectional surveys.

Setting

A territory-wide population survey database.

Participants

69 636 adults aged 35 or above who participated in the surveys in 1999, 2001, 2005 or 2008.

Main outcome measures

Morbidity burden was operationalised as number of chronic conditions from a list of 14, while multimorbidity was defined as a dichotomous status o

SUBMITTER: Lai FTT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6347870 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature