Multimorbidity and comorbidity patterns in the English National Health Service

Clare MacRae; David Henderson; Bruce Guthrie; Stewart W Mercer

doi:10.1016/j.xcrm.2022.100863

Multimorbidity and comorbidity patterns in the English National Health Service

Cell Rep Med. 2022 Dec 20;3(12):100863. doi: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2022.100863.

Authors

Clare MacRae¹, David Henderson², Bruce Guthrie³, Stewart W Mercer⁴

Affiliations

¹ Advanced Care Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Bio Cube 1, Edinburgh BioQuarter, 13 Little France Road, Edinburgh, EH16 4UX, UK; Usher Institute, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, UK. Electronic address: clare.macrae@ed.ac.uk.
² Usher Institute, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, UK.
³ Advanced Care Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Bio Cube 1, Edinburgh BioQuarter, 13 Little France Road, Edinburgh, EH16 4UX, UK; Usher Institute, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, UK.
⁴ Advanced Care Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Bio Cube 1, Edinburgh BioQuarter, 13 Little France Road, Edinburgh, EH16 4UX, UK; Usher Institute, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, UK. Electronic address: stewart.mercer@ed.ac.uk.

Abstract

In an observational population-based study including nearly four million participants, Kuan et al. examined frequencies of common combinations of diseases and identified non-random disease associations in people of all ages and multiple ethnicities.

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MeSH terms

Comorbidity
Humans
Multimorbidity*
Prevalence
State Medicine*