ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
Trends of Multimorbidity Patterns over 16 Years in Older Taiwanese People and Their Relationship to Mortality.
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- Patterns of multimorbidity, their outcomes and analytical methods for their determination: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
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- Charting the Pathways of Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity: A Systematic Review of Clinical Trajectories.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Multimorbidity patterns and premature mortality in a prospective cohort: effect modifications by socioeconomic status and healthy lifestyles.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Comorbidity profiling identifies potential subtype of elderly patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma.The oncologist · 2024Article
- Association of latent class analysis-derived multimorbidity clusters with adverse health outcomes in patients with multiple long-term conditions: comparative results across three UK cohorts.EClinicalMedicine · 2024Article
- Clustering by multiple long-term conditions and social care needs: a cross-sectional study among 10 026 older adults in England.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2023Article
- Association between multimorbidity patterns and incident depression among older adults in Taiwan: the role of social participation.BMC geriatrics · 2023Article
- Exploring multimorbidity clusters in relation to healthcare use and its impact on self-rated health among older people in India.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Patterns and Determinants of Multimorbidity in Older Adults: Study in Health-Ecological Perspective.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Technology Acceptance Model and Older Adults' Exercise Intentions-A Systematic Literature Review.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
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Abstract
Understanding multimorbidity patterns is important in finding a common etiology and developing prevention strategies. Our aim was to identify the multimorbidity patterns of Taiwanese people aged over 50 years and to explore their relationship with health outcomes. This longitudinal cohort study used data from the Taiwan Longitudinal Study on Aging. The data were obtained from wave 3, and the multimorbidity patterns in 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007, and 2011 were analyzed separately by latent class analysis (LCA). The association between each disease group and mortality was examined using logistic regression. Four disease patterns were identified in 1996, namely, the cardiometabolic (18.57%), arthritis-cataract (15.61%), relatively healthy (58.92%), and multimorbidity (6.9%) groups. These disease groups remained similar in the following years. After adjusting all the confounders, the cardiometabolic group showed the highest risk for mortality (odds ratio: 1.237, 95% confidence interval: 1.040-1.472). This longitudinal study reveals the trend of multimorbidity among older adults in Taiwan for 16 years. Older adults with a cardiometabolic multimorbidity pattern had a dismal outcome. Thus, healthcare professionals should put more emphasis on the prevention and identification of cardiometabolic multimorbidity.
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