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Multimorbidity and its associated risk factors among older adults in India
Mohd Rashid Khan1, Manzoor Ahmad Malik2, Saddaf Naaz Akhtar3
1Department of Health, Government of Mizoram, Aizawl, India.
Background:
Health at older ages is a key public health challenge especially among the developing countries. Older adults are at greater risk of vulnerability due to their physical and functional health risks. With rapidly rising ageing population and increasing burden of non-communicable diseases older adults in India are at a greater risk for multimorbidities. Therefore, to understand this multimorbidity transition and its determinants we used a sample of older Indian adults to examine multimorbidity and its associated risk factors among the Indian older-adults aged 45 and above.
Methods:
Using the sample of 72,250 older adults, this study employed the multiple regression analysis to study the risk factors of multimorbidity. Multimorbidity was computed based on the assumption of older-adults having one or more than one disease risks.
Results:
Our results confirm the emerging diseases burden among the older adults in India. One of the significant findings of the study was the contrasting prevalence of multimorbidity among the wealthiest groups (AOR = 1.932; 95% CI = 1.824- 2.032). Similarly women were more likely to have a multimorbidity (AOR = 1.34; 95% CI = 1.282-1.401) as compared to men among the older adults in India.
Conclusion:
Our results confirm an immediate need for proper policy measures and health system strengthening to ensure the better health of older adults in India.
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