Multimorbidity redefined: Prospective health outcomes and the cumulative effect of co-occurring conditions

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1-12

  Koroukian, Siran M ^a,e   Warner, David F ^b   Owusu, Cynthia ^c,e   Given, Charles W ^d  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; BODY MASS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETIREMENT; SELF REPORT; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SYNDROME; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BODY MASS INDEX; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILITY LIMITATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; RETIREMENT; SELF REPORT; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; SYNDROME; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84928595613     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5888/pcd12.140478     Document Type: Article

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