Symptom burden in multimorbidity: a population-based combined questionnaire and registry study from Denmark.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Patients with multimorbidity may carry a large symptom burden. Symptoms are often what drive patients to seek healthcare and they also assist doctors with diagnosis. We examined whether symptom burden is additive in people with multimorbidity compared with people with a single morbidity.

Design

This is a longitudinal cohort study drawing on questionnaire and Danish national registry data. Multimorbidity was defined as having diagnoses from at least two out of ten morbidity groups. Associations between morbidity groups and symptom burden were estimated with multivariable models.

Participants

In 2012, 47 452 participants from the Danish Symptom Cohort answered a questionnaire about symptoms (36 symptoms in total), including whether symptoms were affecting thei

SUBMITTER: Willadsen TG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8051398 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature