Multimorbidity, ageing and mortality: normative data and cohort study in an American population.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe the percentile distribution of multimorbidity across age by sex, race and ethnicity, and to demonstrate the utility of multimorbidity percentiles to predict mortality.

Design

Population-based descriptive study and cohort study.

Setting

Olmsted County, Minnesota (USA).

Participants

We used the medical records-linkage system of the Rochester Epidemiology Project (REP; http://www.rochesterproject.org) to identify all residents of Olmsted County, Minnesota who reached one or more birthdays between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2014 (10 years).

Methods

For each person, we obtained the count of chronic conditions (out of 20 conditions) present on each birthday by extracting all of the diagnostic codes received in the 5 years before the

SUBMITTER: Rocca WA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7986688 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature