Analysis of multimorbidity networks associated with different factors in Northeast China: a cross-sectional analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to identify and study the associations and co-occurrence of multimorbidity, and assessed the associations of diseases with sex, age and hospitalisation duration.

Design

Cross-sectional.

Setting

15 general hospitals in Jilin Province, China.

Participants

A total of 431 295 inpatients were enrolled through a cross-sectional study in Jilin Province, China.

Primary outcome measures

The complex relationships of multimorbidity were presented as weighted networks.

Results

The distributions of the numbers of diseases differed significantly by sex, age and hospitalisation duration (p<0.001). Cerebrovascular diseases (CD), hypertensive diseases (HyD), ischaemic heart diseases (IHD) and other forms of heart disease (OFHD) showed t

SUBMITTER: Yu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8572406 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature