Relationship between multimorbidity, disease cluster and all-cause mortality among older adults: a retrospective cohort analysis

• Main Authors: Kun He (Author), Wenli Zhang (Author), Xueqi Hu (Author), Hao Zhao (Author), Bingxin Guo (Author), Zhan Shi (Author), Xiaoyan Zhao (Author), Chunyu Yin (Author), Songhe Shi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Previous studies have evaluated the association of multimorbidity with higher mortality, but epidemiologic data on the association between the disease clusters and all-cause mortality risk are rare. We aimed to examine the relationship between multimorbidity (number/ cluster) and...