Multimorbidity of cardiometabolic diseases: prevalence and risk for mortality from one million Chinese adults in a longitudinal cohort study.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:The evolution of multimorbidity describes the continuum from a healthy status to the development of a single disease and further progression to multimorbidity with additional diseases. We investigated the evolution of cardiometabolic multimorbidity and risk for mortality in a Chinese population. DESIGN:Longitudinal cohort study using data from the CHinese Electronic health Records Research in Yinzhou (CHERRY) study, with 5.43 million person-years follow-up (median 5.16 years). PARTICIPANTS:Data for 1 038 704 adults (total 22 750 deaths) were analysed. EXPOSURE:Cardiometabolic multimorbidity was defined as ever being diagnosed with two or more of three diseases: hypertension, diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD). PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES:Age-adjusted and sex-ad

SUBMITTER: Zhang D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6443196 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature