Multimorbidity and its associated factors among adults aged 50 and over : A cross-sectional study in 17 European countries
Bezerra de Souza, Dyego Leandro (Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya)
Oliveras-Fabregas, Albert (Universitat Ramon Llull. Departament de Psicologia)
Espelt, Albert (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Psicobiologia i de Metodologia de les Ciències de la Salut)
Bosque Prous, Marina (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Estudis de Ciències de la Salut)
de Camargo Cancela, Marianna (Brazilian National Cancer Institute)
Teixidó-Compañó, Ester (Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya)
Jerez-Roig, Javier (Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya)

Date:	2021
Abstract:	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. 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. 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. Multimorbidity was associated with sociodemographic and physical characteristics, self-rated health, quality of life and loneliness.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Published in:	PloS one, Vol. 16 (february 2021) , ISSN 1932-6203

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246623
PMID: 33571285

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