Profile of multimorbidity in outpatients attending public healthcare settings: A descriptive cross-sectional study from Odisha, India

CONCLUSION: Multimorbidity is becoming a norm in healthcare practice with high prevalence in females and older adults. Health services for non-communicable diseases need to include commonly occurring dyads along with health promotion. Higher prevalence in females reinforces the need to incorporate gender differences while studying multimorbidity. Analysis of multimorbidity epidemiology through an equity lens could illuminate the underpinning complexities and heterogeneities of this phenomenon.PMID:34660423 | PMC:PMC8483093 | DOI:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2436_20
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