1. Multimorbidity as an important issue among women: Results of a gender difference investigation in a large population-based cross-sectional study in West Asia
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Samad Qaravi, Alireza Delavari, Akram Pourshams, Sanford M. Dawsey, Farin Kamangar, Akbar Feyz-Sani, Farhad Islami, Christian C. Abnet, Mohammad H. Derakhshan, Paul Brennan, Batoul Ahmadi, Alireza Sadjadi, Reza Malekzadeh, Azam Majidi, Amir Mahdi Sadjadi, Hossein Poustchi, Paolo Boffetta, Mohammad Amani, Mehdi Yaseri, Masoud Khoshnia, Masoomeh Alimohammadian, and Alimohammadian, M. and Majidi, A. and Yaseri, M. and Ahmadi, B. and Islami, F. and Derakhshan, M. and Delavari, A. and Amani, M. and Feyz-Sani, A. and Poustchi, H. and Pourshams, A. and MahdiSadjadi, A. and Khoshnia, M. and Qaravi, S. and Abnet, C.C. and Dawsey, S. and Brennan, P. and Kamangar, F. and Boffetta, P. and Sadjadi, A. and Malekzadeh, R.
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Objectives To investigate the impact of gender on multimorbidity in northern Iran. Design A cross-sectional analysis of the Golestan cohort data. Setting Golestan Province, Iran. Study population 49 946 residents (age 40–75 years) of Golestan Province, Iran. Main outcome measures Researchers collected data related to multimorbidity, defined as co-existence of two or more chronic diseases in an individual, at the beginning of a representative cohort study which recruited its participants from 2004 to 2008. The researchers utilised simple and multiple Poisson regression models with robust variances to examine the simultaneous effects of multiple factors. Results Women had a 25.0% prevalence of multimorbidity, whereas men had a 13.4% prevalence (p
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- 2017