Multimorbidity patterns and association with mortality in 0.5 million Chinese adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Few studies have assessed the relationship between multimorbidity patterns and mortality risk in the Chinese population. We aimed to identify multimorbidity patterns and examined the associations of multimorbidity patterns and the number of chronic diseases with the risk of mortality among Chinese middle-aged and older adults.

Methods

We used data from the China Kadoorie Biobank and included 512,723 participants aged 30 to 79 years. Multimorbidity was defined as the presence of two or more of the 15 chronic diseases collected by self-report or physical examination at baseline. Multimorbidity patterns were identified using hierarchical cluster analysis. Cox regression was used to estimate the associations of multimorbidity patterns and the number of chronic disease

SUBMITTER: Fan J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9276333 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature