Multimorbidity patterns and disability and healthcare use in Europe: do the associations change with the regional socioeconomic status?

Multimorbidity, the concurrence of several chronic conditions, is a rising concern that increases the years lived with disability and poses a burden on healthcare systems. Little is known on how it interacts with socioeconomic deprivation, previously associated with poor health-related outcomes. We...

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Publicado en:European Journal of Ageing Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 1 - 11
Autores principales: Zacarías-Pons, Lluís, Turró-Garriga, Oriol, Saez, Marc, Garre-Olmo, Josep
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Publicado: Springer Nature 2024
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          Zacarías-Pons, Lluís
          Turró-Garriga, Oriol
          Saez, Marc
          Garre-Olmo, Josep
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          Research Group on Aging, Disability and Health, Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI), Girona, Catalonia, Spain
          Glòria Compte Research Institute, Fundació Salut Empordà, Figueres, Girona, Spain
          https://ror.org/01xdxns91 Research Group on Statistics, Econometrics and Health (GRECS), University of Girona, Girona, Spain
          CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
          https://ror.org/01xdxns91 Serra-Húnter Professor, Department of Nursing, University of Girona, Girona, Spain
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        Europe
        Chronic diseases
        Life expectancy
        Self-evaluation
        Medical care
        Patients' attitudes
        Social classes
        Aging
        Quality of life
        Hospital care
        People with disabilities
        Retirement
        Structural equation modeling
        Disability determination
        Questionnaires
        Descriptive statistics
        Research funding
        Comorbidity
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        Health inequities
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        Latent class analysis
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      ab: Multimorbidity, the concurrence of several chronic conditions, is a rising concern that increases the years lived with disability and poses a burden on healthcare systems. Little is known on how it interacts with socioeconomic deprivation, previously associated with poor health-related outcomes. We aimed to characterize the association between multimorbidity and these outcomes and how this relationship may change with socioeconomic development of regions. 55,915 individuals interviewed in 2017 were drawn from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, a population-based study. A Latent Class Analysis was conducted to fit multimorbidity patterns based on 16 self-reported conditions. Physical limitation, quality-of-life and healthcare utilization outcomes were regressed on those patterns adjusting for additional covariates. Those analyses were then extended to assess whether such associations varied with the region socioeconomic status. We identified six different patterns, labelled according to their more predominant chronic conditions. After the "healthy" class, the "metabolic" and the "osteoarticular" classes had the best outcomes involving limitations and the lowest healthcare utilization. The "neuro-affective-ulcer" and the "several conditions" classes yielded the highest probabilities of physical limitation, whereas the "cardiovascular" group had the highest probability of hospitalization. The association of multimorbidity over physical limitations appeared to be stronger when living in a deprived region, especially for metabolic and osteoarticular conditions, whereas no major effect differences were found for healthcare use. Multimorbidity groups do differentiate in terms of limitation and healthcare utilization. Such differences are exacerbated with socioeconomic inequities between regions even within Europe.
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