Individual and population level impact of chronic conditions on functional disability in older adults.

BACKGROUND:It is unknown if the relationship between multimorbidity and disability differs by combinations of chronic conditions. The objective of our study was to elucidate how joint effect of different combinations of chronic conditions impact the five year risk of functional disability at the pop...

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Main Authors: Parminder Raina, Anne Gilsing, Alexandra J Mayhew, Nazmul Sohel, Edwin van den Heuvel, Lauren E Griffith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229160