ArticleThe Lancet regional health. Europe2021
Identifying longitudinal clusters of multimorbidity in an urban setting: A population-based cross-sectional study.
Article in The Lancet regional health. Europe, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07660757 (Epidemiological Cluster Evaluation in Patients Admitted to Internal Medicine, With at Least One of the Following Diagnoses), which is not on this map. Cited by 45 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Epidemiological Cluster Evaluation in Patients Admitted to Internal Medicine, With at Least One of the Following Diagnoses: Heart Failure, COPD, Renal Failure. The FADOI IN-CluDiMI Study
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45 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 87 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Temporal multimorbidity patterns and cluster identification: a longitudinal analysis of administrative data.BMC medicine · 2025Article
- Cluster and survival analysis of UK biobank data reveals associations between physical multimorbidity clusters and subsequent depression.Communications medicine · 2025Article
- Prevalence of multimorbidity and its relationship with socioeconomic status among Chinese older adults over time.PloS one · 2025Article
- Socioeconomic and labor characterization and prevalence of chronic disease in the Colombian population in the periods 2010, 2013, and 2016: A multiple correspondence analysis.Revista brasileira de epidemiologia = Brazilian journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- The burden of diabetes-associated multiple long-term conditions on years of life spent and lost.Nature medicine · 2024Article
- Feasibility of multiorgan risk prediction with routinely collected diagnostics: a prospective cohort study in the UK Biobank.BMJ evidence-based medicine · 2024Observational
- Patterns of the Health and Economic Burden of 33 Rare Diseases in China: Nationwide Web-Based Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
- A Multimorbidity Analysis of Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19 in Northwest Italy: Longitudinal Study Using Evolutionary Machine Learning and Health Administrative Data.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
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- Application of Machine Learning in Multimorbidity Research: Protocol for a Scoping Review.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundGlobally, there is increasing research on clusters of multimorbidity, but few studies have investigated multimorbidity in urban contexts characterised by a young, multi-ethnic, deprived populations. This study identified clusters of associative multimorbidity in an urban setting.
methodsThis is a population-based retrospective cross-sectional study using electronic health records of all adults aged 18 years and over, registered between April 2005 to May 2020 in general practices in one inner London borough. Multiple correspondence analysis and cluster analysis was used to identify groups of multimorbidity from 32 long-term conditions (LTCs).
resultsThe population included 41 general practices with 826,936 patients registered between 2005 and 2020, with mean age 40 (SD15·6) years. The prevalence of multimorbidity was 21% (
interpretationMental health problems, pain, and at-risk behaviours leading to cardiovascular diseases are the important clusters identified in this young, urban population.
fundingImpact on Urban Health, United Kingdom.
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