The impact of multimorbidity on adult physical and mental health in low- and middle-income countries: what does the study on global ageing and adult health (SAGE) reveal?

Arokiasamy Perianayagam; Uttamacharya Uttamacharya; Kshipra Jain; Richard Biritwum; Alfred Edwin Yawson; Fan Wu; Yanfei Guo; Tamara Maximova; Betty Manrique‐Espinoza; Aarón Salinas‐Rodríguez; Sara Afshar; Sanghamitra Pati; Gillian H. Ice; Sube Banerjee; Melissa A. Liebert; J. Josh Snodgrass; Nirmala Naidoo; Somnath Chatterji; Paul Kowal

doi:10.1186/s12916-015-0402-8

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Findings highlight the challenge of multimorbidity in LMICs, particularly among the lower socioeconomic groups, and the pressing need for reorientation of health care resources considering the distribution of multimorbidity and its adverse effect on health outcomes.

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