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One in five people in south London live with multiple long-term conditions

The study, published today in the Lancet Regional Health by researchers from King s College London and the NIHR Guy s and St Thomas Biomedical Research Centre and supported by Impact on Urban Health, examined the prevalence of multimorbidity - two or more long-term diseases at once - and identified key relationships between diseases. Researchers analysed electronic health records from participants aged 18 and over between April 2005 and May 2020 in one London borough. The borough has a deprived, multi-ethnic and youthful population. Research showed multimorbidity is more common among women and Black ethnic minority groups. An estimated 21% of the population had multimorbidity and the number of conditions increased progressively with age, with people aged 80 and above having a median of four conditions.

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