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Multimorbidity patterns by health-related quality of life status in older adults: An association rules and network analysis utilizing Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
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Thi-Ngoc Tran, Sanghee Lee, Chang-Mo Oh, Hyunsoon Cho
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Epidemiol Health. 2022;e2022113. Published online November 29, 2022
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4178/epih.e2022113
[Accepted]
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Objectives
Improved life expectancy has increased the prevalence of older adults living with multimorbidity, which likely deteriorates their health-related quality of life (HRQoL). However, less is known about patterns and the relationships of multimorbidity by HRQoL status in older adults.
Methods Individuals aged 65 or older from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey V-VII (2010-2018) were analyzed. HRQoL was assessed by the EQ-5D questionnaire and categorized into three groups: poor, normal, and good. The impact of multimorbidity on HRQoL was evaluated using logistic regression. The patterns and inter-relationships between multimorbidities, stratified by the HRQoL groups, were analyzed using the association rule and network analysis approach.
Results Multimorbidity status was significantly associated with poor HRQoL (3 or more diseases vs. none: aOR = 2.70, 95% CI, 2.10–3.46). Hypertension, arthritis, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes were the most prevalent diseases across all HRQoL groups. The complex interrelationships of morbidities, higher prevalence, and node strengths in all diseases were observed in the poor HRQoL group, particularly arthritis, depression, and stroke, compared to other groups (1.5~3 times higher, all p-values <.05). Apart from hypertension, arthritis and hyperlipidemia had a higher prevalence and stronger connections with other diseases in women, whereas diabetes and stroke in men with poor HRQoL.
Conclusions Our study revealed that multimorbidity patterns were complicatedly inter-correlated disease networks in the poor HRQoL group and diversed by sex. These findings enhance the understanding of multimorbidity connections and help inform health care needs for older adults, especially those with poor HRQoL.
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