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Title: | Association of Multimorbidity and Excess Mortality After Fractures Among Danish Adults | Authors: | Tran , Thach Bliuc, Dana Ho-Le, Thao Abrahamsen, Bo VAN DEN BERGH, Joop Chen , Weiwen Eisman, John A. GEUSENS, Piet Hansen, Louise Vestergaard, Peter Nguyen , Tuan Blank, Robert D. Center, Jacqueline R. |
Issue Date: | 2022 | Publisher: | AMER MEDICAL ASSOC | Source: | JAMA Network Open, 5 (10) (Art N° e2235856) | Abstract: | IMPORTANCE Limited knowledge about interactions among health disorders impedes optimal patient care. Because comorbidities are common among patients 50 years and older with fractures, these fractures provide a useful setting for studying interactions among disorders. OBJECTIVE To define multimorbidity clusters at the time of fracture and quantify the interaction between multimorbidity and fracture in association with postfracture excess mortality. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This nationwide cohort study included 307 870 adults in Denmark born on or before January 1, 1951, who had an incident low-trauma fracture between January 1, 2001, and December 31, 2014, and were followed up through December 31, 2016. Data were analyzed from February 1 to March 31, 2022. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Fracture and 32 predefined chronic diseases recorded within 5 years before the index fracture were identified from the Danish National Hospital Discharge Register. Death was ascertained from the Danish Register on Causes of Death. Latent class analysis was conducted to identify multimorbidity clusters. Relative survival analysis was used to quantify excess mortality associated with the combination of multimorbidity and fractures at specific sites. RESULTS Among the 307 870 participants identified with incident fractures, 95 372 were men (31.0%; mean [SD] age at fracture, 72.3 [11.2] years) and 212 498 were women (69.0%; mean [SD] age at fracture, 74.9 [11.2] years). During a median of 6.5 (IQR, 3.0-11.0) years of follow-up, 41 017 men (43.0%) and 81 727 women (38.5%) died. Almost half of patients with fractures (42.9%) had at least 2 comorbidities. Comorbidities at fracture were categorized as low-multimorbidity (60.5% in men and 66.5% in women), cardiovascular (23.7% in men and 23.5% in women), diabetic (5.6% in men and 5.0% in women), malignant (5.1% in men and 5.0% in women), and mixed hepatic and/or inflammatory (5.1% in men only) clusters. These clusters distinguished individuals with advanced, complex, or late-stage disease from those with earlier-stage disease. Multimorbidity and proximal or lower leg fractures were associated with increased mortality risk, with the highest excess mortality found in patients with hip fracture in the malignant cluster (1-year excess mortality: 40.8% [95% CI: 38.1%-43.6%]). The combination of multimorbidity and fracture compounded the association with mortality, conferring much greater risk than either alone. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE Concomitant illnesses were common and clustered into distinct multimorbidity clusters that were associated with excess postfracture mortality. The compound contribution of multimorbidity to postfracture excess mortality highlights the need for more comprehensive approaches in these high-risk patients. The analytical approach applied to fracture could also be used to examine other sentinel health events. | Notes: | Tran, T (corresponding author), Garvan Inst Med Res, Skeletal Dis Program, 384 Victoria St, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia. th.tran@garvan.org.au |
Keywords: | Adult;Child;Cohort Studies;Denmark;Female;Humans;Male;Multimorbidity;Hip Fractures;Osteoporotic Fractures | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/38840 | ISSN: | 2574-3805 | e-ISSN: | 2574-3805 | DOI: | 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.35856 | ISI #: | 000867868500008 | Rights: | 2022 Tran T et al. JAMA Network Open. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC-BY License. | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2023 |
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