Tag: multimorbidity

Multimorbidity Patterns in Patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Identified Through Hospital Discharge Records: A Network-Based Analysis

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal.  Considerable variability exists in the clinical presentations of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Greater understanding of the comorbidities observed in Chinese patients with PAH is urgently needed.

This 10-year retrospective analysis was based on clinical data from hospital discharge records for individuals diagnosed with PAH (n = 2584. Propensity score matching was used to match patients with PAH to individuals without a PAH diagnosis in a ratio of 1:1, by age, sex, discharge time, and department, over the same period. Multimorbidity networks were constructed based on sex and age, and used the cosine index to measure the co-occurrence of chronic diseases.

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