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SUBMITTER: Akugizibwe R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7764652 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Akugizibwe Roselyne R Calderón-Larrañaga Amaia A Roso-Llorach Albert A Onder Graziano G Marengoni Alessandra A Zucchelli Alberto A Rizzuto Debora D Vetrano Davide L DL
Journal of clinical medicine 20201210 12
The presence of multiple chronic conditions (i.e., multimorbidity) increases the risk of hospitalisation in older adults. We aimed to examine the association between different multimorbidity patterns and unplanned hospitalisations over 5 years. To that end, 2,250 community-dwelling individuals aged 60 years and older from the Swedish National Study on Aging and Care in Kungsholmen (SNAC-K) were studied. Participants were grouped into six multimorbidity patterns using a fuzzy c-means cluster anal ...[more]