Background The prevalence of comorbidity is high, with 80% of the elderly population
having three or more chronic conditions. Comorbidity is associated with a decline in many …

Objective: To determine the prevalence of multimorbidity in primary care, by age, sex, and
socio-economic class, and to analyse the trend in multimorbidity over the last 20 years …

We explored the role of age, gender, and socioeconomic status in the occurrence of chronic
diseases and multimorbidity in 1099 elderly participants in the Kungsholmen Project …

Objectives: To estimate the prevalence and patterns of multimorbidity in a sample of patients
attending general practice, in the population who attended general practice in 2005, and in …

The risk for multifactorial diseases is determined by risk factors that frequently apply across
disorders (universal risk factors). To investigate unresolved issues on etiology of and …

Background This study was carried out to compare the HRQoL of patients in general
practice with differing chronic diseases with the HRQoL of patients without chronic …

OBJECTIVE: The aim was to investigate how settings affect the prevalence and nature of
multimorbidity in elderly individuals. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: We used data from …

Background In aging populations, the prevalence of multimorbidity is high, and the role of
socioeconomic status and its correlates is not well described. Thus, we investigated the …

Background Due to technological progress and improvements in medical care and health
policy the average age of patients in primary care is continuously growing. In equal …

Our purpose in this article is to describe and illustrate the application of cluster analysis to
identify clinically relevant multimorbidity groups. Multimorbidity is the co-occurrence of 2 or …