Multimorbidity patterns in young adults in Catalonia : an analysis of clusters

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OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to identify multimorbidity patterns in patients from 19 to 44 years attended in primary care in Catalonia in 2010.

DESIGN: Cross-sectional study.

SETTING: 251 primary care centres.

PARTICIPANTS: 530,798 people with multimorbidity, aged 19 to 44 years.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Multimorbidity was defined as the coexistence of ≥2 more International Classification system (ICD-10) registered in the electronic health record. Multimorbidity patterns were identified using hierarchical cluster analysis and by sex and age group (19-24 and 25-44).

RESULTS: Of the 882,708 people from initial population, 530,798 (60.1%) accomplished multimorbidity criterion. Mean age was 33.0 years (SD: 7.0) and 53.3% were women. Multimorbidity was higher in the 25-to 44-years-old group with respect the younger group (60.5 vs. 58.1%, p<0.001), being higher in women. Most prevalent cluster in all groups included, among others, by dental caries, smoking, dorsalgia, common cold and other anxiety disorders. For both sexes in the 25-to 44-years-old group appeared the cardiovascular-endocrine-metabolic pattern (obesity, lipid disorders and arterial hypertension).

CONCLUSIONS: Multimorbidity affects more than half of persons between 19 to 44-years-old. The most prevalent cluster is formed by grouping common diseases (dental caries, common cold, smoking, anxiety disorders and dorsalgias). Another pattern to highlight is the cardiovascular-endocrine-metabolic pattern in the 25- to 44 years-old group. Knowledge of patterns of multimorbidity in young adults could be used to design individualized preventive strategies.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:48

Enthalten in:

Atencion primaria - 48(2016), 7 vom: 03. Aug., Seite 479-92

Sprache:

Spanisch

Weiterer Titel:

Patrones de multimorbilidad en adultos jóvenes en Cataluña: un análisis de clústeres

Beteiligte Personen:

Violán, Concepción [VerfasserIn]
Foguet-Boreu, Quintí [VerfasserIn]
Roso-Llorach, Albert [VerfasserIn]
Rodriguez-Blanco, Teresa [VerfasserIn]
Pons-Vigués, Mariona [VerfasserIn]
Pujol-Ribera, Enriqueta [VerfasserIn]
Valderas, Jose M [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adultos
Adults
Atención primaria
Centros de salud
Clúster análisis
Cluster analysis
Journal Article
Multimorbidity
Multimorbidity patterns
Multimorbilidad
Patrones de multimorbilidad
Primary care
Primary care centres

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 16.02.2018

Date Revised 01.12.2019

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.aprim.2015.10.006

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM255917449