Multimorbidity and its associated factors among adults aged 50 and over: A cross-sectional study in 17 European countries.
In: PloS one, Jg. 16 (2021-02-11), Heft 2, S. e0246623
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Aims: To estimate the prevalence of multimorbidity among European community-dwelling adults, as well as to analyse the association with gender, age, education, self-rated health, loneliness, quality of life, size of social network, Body Mass Index (BMI) and disability.
Methods: A cross-sectional study based on wave 6 (2015) of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) was conducted, and community-dwelling participants aged 50+ (n = 63,844) from 17 European countries were selected. Multimorbidity was defined as presenting two or more health conditions. The independent variables were gender, age group, educational level, self-rated health, loneliness, size of network, quality of life, BMI and disability (1+ limitations of basic activities of daily living). Poisson regression models with robust variance were fit for bivariate and multivariate analysis.
Results: The prevalence of multimorbidity was 28.2% (confidence interval-CI 95%: 27.5.8-29.0) among men and 34.5% (CI95%: 34.1-35.4) among women. The most common health conditions were cardiometabolic and osteoarticular diseases in both genders, and emotional disorders in younger women. A large variability in the prevalence of multimorbidity in European countries was verified, even between countries of the same region.
Conclusions: Multimorbidity was associated with sociodemographic and physical characteristics, self-rated health, quality of life and loneliness.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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Multimorbidity and its associated factors among adults aged 50 and over: A cross-sectional study in 17 European countries.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Bezerra de Souza, DL ; Oliveras-Fabregas, A ; Espelt, A ; Bosque-Prous, M ; de Camargo Cancela M ; Teixidó-Compañó, E ; Jerez-Roig, J |
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Zeitschrift: | PloS one, Jg. 16 (2021-02-11), Heft 2, S. e0246623 |
Veröffentlichung: | San Francisco, CA : Public Library of Science, 2021 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 1932-6203 (electronic) |
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0246623 |
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