Association between multimorbidity trajectories and incident disability among mid to older age adults: China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although multimorbidity is a risk factor for disability, the relationship between the accumulative patterns of multimorbidity and disability remains poorly understood. The objective of this study was to identify the latent groups of multimorbidity trajectories among mid to older age adults and to examine their associations with incident disability.

Methods

We included 5,548 participants aged ≥ 45 years who participated in the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study from 2011 to 2018 and had no multimorbidity (≥ 2 chronic conditions) at baseline. The group-based multi-trajectory modeling was used to identify distinct trajectory groups of multimorbidity based on the latent dimensions underlying 13 chronic conditions. The association between multimorbidity tra

SUBMITTER: Shi Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9469590 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature