This week the paper on ‘Inequalities in developing multimorbidity over time: A population-based cohort study from an urban, multi-ethnic borough in the United Kingdom’, which was published in The Lancet. This was a collaborative analysis between King’s College London, NIHR and OBH.

The research shows that social and material deprivation accelerate the development of multimorbidity, yet the mechanisms which drive multimorbidity pathways and trajectories remain unclear. Our research aimed to examine the association between health inequality, risk factors and accumulation or resolution of LTCs, taking disease sequences into consideration.

After exploring the relations among 32 Long Term Conditions, taking the order of disease occurrence into consideration, we found there were distinctive patterns for the development and accumulation of multimorbidity. There is an increased risk of transitioning from no conditions to multimorbidity and mortality related to ethnicity, deprivation and gender.

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