The prevalence of cardiometabolic multimorbidity and its associations with health outcomes among women in China.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

In China, a limited number of studies focus on women and examine the effect of cardiometabolic multimorbidity (defined as the presence of two or more cardiometabolic diseases) on health outcomes. This research aims to investigate the epidemiology of cardiometabolic multimorbidity and the association of cardiometabolic multimorbidity with long-term mortality.

Methods

This study used data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study between 2011 and 2018, which includes 4,832 women aged 45 years and older in China. Poisson-distributed Generalized Linear Models (GLM) were applied to examine the association of cardiometabolic multimorbidity with all-cause mortality.

Results

Overall, the prevalence of cardiometabolic multimorbidity was 33.1% among the

SUBMITTER: Zhao Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9947472 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature