Physical and Mental Health Comorbidities Among Adults With Multiple Sclerosis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare the incidence of and adjusted hazard ratios for common cardiometabolic diseases, musculoskeletal disorders, and psychological morbidities among adults with and without multiple sclerosis (MS).

Patients and methods

Beneficiaries were included if they had an International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification diagnostic code for MS (n=9815) from a national private insurance claims database (Clinformatics Data Mart; OptumInsight). Adults without MS were also included (n=1,474,232) as a control group. Incidence estimates of common cardiometabolic diseases, musculoskeletal disorders, and psychological morbidities were compared at 5 years of continuous enrollment. Survival models were used to quantify unadjusted and adjusted

SUBMITTER: Peterson MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8715377 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature