The presence of many chronic disorders in one person, such as cancer, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and respiratory illnesses, is known as multimorbidity.
The goal of lifestyle medicine is to enhance clinical treatment by relieving symptoms, boosting drug efficacy, and promoting disease remission.
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In a recent study, the relationship between multimorbidity and exercise, nutrition, substance misuse, stress, relationships, and sleep was investigated. The Lifelines Cohort Study, which comprised 79,345 adults in the Netherlands, provided the data for the study.
The study discovered that certain lifestyle characteristics, such as little exercise, poor nutrition, and high levels of stress, were linked to multimorbidity. Future clinical therapy suggestions for people with multimorbidity may benefit from these findings.
- Multimorbidity involves multiple chronic disorders in one person.
- Study finds lifestyle factors linked to multimorbidity; potential therapy recommendations.
- Asthma diagnosis or presence determined by wheezing, dyspnea symptoms.
The Lifelines Cohort Study, which comprised 79,345 adults residing in the northern areas of the Netherlands, provided the study with the data. Using multivariate logistic regression modeling, odds ratios (OR) were estimated after accounting for variables such as age, gender, body mass index (BMI), socioeconomic status, level of education, and family income.
Pre-bronchodilator spirometry was performed to quantify airflow limitation, and baseline data were collected between December 2006 and December 2013.
If a clinician diagnosed the patient with asthma or if the patient used asthma drugs and reported two or more wheezing and dyspnea symptoms while at rest and when they first awoke, asthma was deemed to be present.
People who self-reported having type 2 diabetes (T2D) or diabetes with missing type data, used diabetic medications, had fasting blood glucose (FG) of at least 7.0 mmol/L, or had glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) less than 6.5% were considered to be prevalent T2D cases.
