Multimorbidity

Shift workers with hypertension who usually or always work night shifts had greater risk for cardiometabolic multimorbidity compared with day workers, researchers reported in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Adults with two or more chronic conditions by middle age had an increased risk for dementia later in life, according to findings published in The BMJ.

In this video, Jeffrey A. Sparks, MD, MMSc, discusses cluster-analysis data from ACR Convergence 2021, which investigated multimorbidity patterns among patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Preserved ratio impaired spirometry is a common lung function trait associated with breathlessness, multimorbidity and increased mortality risk, researchers reported in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.

In patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, multimorbidity was prevalent and comorbidity clusters may represent phenotypes with distinct profiles and characteristics, researchers reported in Respiratory Medicine.

A team-based intervention in the primary care setting that included motivational approaches and self-management support improved some health behaviors among patients with multimorbidity, a randomized controlled trial showed.

Multimorbidity prevalence increased from 2006 to 2016 among older adults living with HIV who visited one Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program clinic, according to a study published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

Severe hypoglycemic episodes are a marker of, rather than causally related to, an increased risk for death among adults with type 2 diabetes, according to data published in Diabetologia.

Multimorbidity is highly prevalent, and progresses more rapidly, among patients with rheumatoid arthritis compared to those without the disease, according to data published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.

The Cambridge Multimorbidity Score — a new method of measuring multimorbidity — outperformed the currently used Charlson Comorbidity Index across all outcomes, according to research published in CMAJ.