Concordance of chronic conditions among the household members in Shanghai: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Members living in the same household tend to share some similar behaviours and environment. We want to quantitatively assess the associations of chronic conditions to investigate the concordance of disease status among the household members.

Setting

Shanghai, China.

Participants

Our data were from the fifth Health Service Survey in Shanghai in 2013. 12 002 households with 31 531 residents were selected in this survey by using a three-stage, stratified, random sampling method.

Outcome measures

Five highly prevalent chronic conditions, namely hypertension, diabetes, ischaemic heart disease (IHD), cerebrovascular disease (CVD) and obesity were chosen. The generalised estimating equations (GEE) model was used to estimate the associations adjusted for age

SUBMITTER: Qin Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6937075 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature