医学
民族
人口学
心理干预
公共卫生
全国健康访谈调查
横断面研究
流行病学
老年学
种族(生物学)
卫生公平
人口
环境卫生
内科学
植物
护理部
病理
社会学
人类学
生物
精神科
作者
César Caraballo,Jeph Herrin,Shiwani Mahajan,Daisy Massey,Yuan Lu,Chima D. Ndumele,Elizabeth E. Drye,Harlan M. Krumholz
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.amjmed.2022.04.010
摘要
Disparities in multimorbidity prevalence indicate health inequalities, as the risk of morbidity does not intrinsically differ by race/ethnicity. This study aimed to determine if multimorbidity differences by race/ethnicity are decreasing over time.Serial cross-sectional analysis of the National Health Interview Survey, 1999-2018. Included individuals were ≥18 years old and categorized by self-reported race, ethnicity, age, and income. The main outcomes were temporal trends in multimorbidity prevalence based on the self-reported presence of ≥2 of 9 common chronic conditions.The study sample included 596,355 individuals (4.7% Asian, 11.8% Black, 13.8% Latino/Hispanic, and 69.7% White). In 1999, the estimated prevalence of multimorbidity was 5.9% among Asian, 17.4% among Black, 10.7% among Latino/Hispanic, and 13.5% among White individuals. Prevalence increased for all racial/ethnic groups during the study period (P ≤ .001 for each), with no significant change in the differences between them. In 2018, compared with White individuals, multimorbidity was more prevalent among Black individuals (+2.5 percentage points) and less prevalent among Asian and Latino/Hispanic individuals (-6.6 and -2.1 percentage points, respectively). Among those aged ≥30 years, Black individuals had multimorbidity prevalence equivalent to that of Latino/Hispanic and White individuals aged 5 years older, and Asian individuals aged 10 years older.From 1999 to 2018, a period of increasing multimorbidity prevalence for all the groups studied, there was no significant progress in eliminating disparities between Black individuals and White individuals. Public health interventions that prevent the onset of chronic conditions in early life may be needed to eliminate these disparities.
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