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SUBMITTER: Ahrenfeldt LJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7237816 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ahrenfeldt Linda Juel LJ Möller Sören S Thinggaard Mikael M Christensen Kaare K Lindahl-Jacobsen Rune R
International journal of public health 20190624 7
<h4>Objectives</h4>To examine sex differences in prevalent comorbidity and frailty across age and European regions.<h4>Methods</h4>This is a cross-sectional study based on 113,299 Europeans aged 50+ participating in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe from 2004-2005 to 2015. Sex differences in the Comorbidity Index and the Frailty Phenotype were investigated using ordinal logistic regressions.<h4>Results</h4>European women had generally higher odds of prevalent comorbidity (OR ...[more]