Multimorbidity prevalence in the general population: the role of obesity in chronic disease clustering

BMC Public Health

Jeffrey A Johnson¹  Tim Cooke²  Markus Lahtinen²  Emmanuel Ngwakongnwi²  Calypse B Agborsangaya¹ 

[1] Department of Public Health Sciences, 2–040 Li Ka Shing Center for Health Research and Innovation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E1, Canada;Health Quality Council of Alberta, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

关键词: Health outcome;    Chronic diseases;    Obesity;    Multimorbidity;   

Others  :  1161464
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-13-1161

 received in 2013-06-14, accepted in 2013-11-27,  发布年份 2013

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Agborsangaya et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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