Why the study?
Depression is common in patients with multimorbidity, but little is known about the relationship between depression and multimorbidity.
Population
1871 participants aged ≥60 years old covered by Shanghai long-term care insurance
Comparison
Association of different multimorbidity patterns with depressive symptoms
Design
Population-based cross-sectional study
Authors
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May warrant attention to multimorbidity patterns when assessing depression in older long-term care adults; leaves open causality and intervention targets.
Cardiometabolic and degenerative disease multimorbidity patterns are associated with a higher risk of depression in older adults requiring long-term care.
Li et al. (2021) studied this question.
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