Population
67,786 patients from the Registration Network Family Practices in the Netherlands
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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CVD patients may warrant closer primary care monitoring for co-occurring conditions; leaves open causality and temporality for longitudinal studies.
In a large Dutch primary care cohort, over a quarter of patients had at least one cardiovascular disease, which strongly correlated with the presence of other cardiovascular and chronic comorbidities.
Kendir et al. (2017) studied this question.