Multimorbidity and its associated risk factors among older adults in India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health at older ages is a key public health challenge especially among the developing countries. Older adults are at greater risk of vulnerability due to their physical and functional health risks. With rapidly rising ageing population and increasing burden of non-communicable diseases older adults in India are at a greater risk for multimorbidities. Therefore, to understand this multimorbidity transition and its determinants we used a sample of older Indian adults to examine multimorbidity and its associated risk factors among the Indian older-adults aged 45 and above.

Methods

Using the sample of 72,250 older adults, this study employed the multiple regression analysis to study the risk factors of multimorbidity. Multimorbidity was computed based on the assumptio

SUBMITTER: Khan MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9008964 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature