Multimorbidity

Women are living, on average, 5 years longer than men with an improved overall quality of life, but with an increased lifespan comes greater risk for multimorbidity, particularly after the menopause transition.

Among postmenopausal women in China, a longer reproductive lifespan was associated with a lower prevalence of experiencing multimorbidity, according to findings published in Menopause.

DESTIN, Fla. — A simple mnemonic device can help providers remember to ask patients with rheumatoid arthritis about key multimorbidities driving early death, according to a speaker at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology East .

According to published results, patients with incident fractures who have multimorbidity and poor self-rated health may be at increased risk for subsequent fractures and mortality.

Adults who developed diabetes, psychosis and congestive HF, in that order, had reduced life expectancy compared with people who developed the same three conditions in a different order, researchers reported.

Cardiometabolic multimorbidity and midlife onset of cardiometabolic disease are significantly associated with an increased risk for dementia, and genetic background may underlie this association, researchers reported.

Black adults in the United States with multiple cardiometabolic morbidities are at increased risk for both all-cause and CHD mortality, according to a study.

Getting fewer than 5 hours of sleep a night in mid-to-late life was linked to a higher risk for multiple chronic diseases, a recent study published in PLOS Medicine found.

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Multimorbidity was associated with a 63% increased risk for incident dementia, with the greatest risk linked to hypertension and diabetes, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.