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To determine the prevalence of multimorbidity across age, sex, and socioeconomic groups, and to evaluate longitudinal multimorbidity trends over a 20-year period.

January 1, 2008European Journal of General PracticeOpen Access

Multimorbidity in primary care: Prevalence and trend over the last 20 years

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AUAnnemarie UijenRadboud University Nijmegen ELE.H. van de LisdonkLeiden University

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Observational study reveals doubling chronic disease rates and rising multimorbidity in primary care patients, highlighting the growing need for specialized clinical guidelines.

Key Points

To determine the prevalence of multimorbidity across age, sex, and socioeconomic groups, and to evaluate longitudinal multimorbidity trends over a 20-year period.
Analyzed longitudinal observational data from the Continuous Morbidity Registration (CMR) Nijmegen, encompassing approximately 13,500 enlisted patients.
Assessed demographic distributions of multimorbidity cross-sectionally in 2005 and tracked historical prevalence trends from 1985 to 2005.
Multimorbidity prevalence was significantly associated with increasing age, female sex, and lower socioeconomic class.
Chronic disease prevalence doubled from 1985 to 2005, and the proportion of patients presenting with four or more chronic diseases increased by approximately 300%.

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Uijen et al. (2008) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1df369ef3fa0b4c0ef9d00 https://doi.org/10.1080/13814780802436093

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Observational study reveals doubling chronic disease rates and rising multimorbidity in primary care patients, highlighting the growing need for specialized clinical guidelines.

Multimorbidity in primary care: Prevalence and trend over the last 20 years

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Multimorbidity in primary care: Prevalence and trend over the last 20 years

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