Prevalence of multimorbidity in Germany: impact of age and educational level in a cross-sectional study on 19,294 adults

• Auteurs principaux: Marie-Therese Puth (Auteur), Klaus Weckbecker (Auteur), Matthias Schmid (Auteur), Eva Münster (Auteur)
• Format: Livre
• Publié: BMC, 2017-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Sujets: article
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Abstract Background Multimorbidity is one of the most important and challenging aspects in public health. Multimorbid people are associated with more hospital admissions, a large number of drug prescriptions and higher risks of mortality. As there is evidence that multimorbidity varies with age and...