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Prevalence of multimorbidity in Germany: impact of age and educational level in a cross-sectional study on 19,294 adults

BACKGROUND: Multimorbidity is one of the most important and challenging aspects in public health. Multimorbid people are associated with more hospital admissions, a large number of drug prescriptions and higher risks of mortality. As there is evidence that multimorbidity varies with age and socioeco...

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Autores principales: Puth, Marie-Therese, Weckbecker, Klaus, Schmid, Matthias, Münster, Eva
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5648462/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29047341
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4833-3