Implications of multimorbidity patterns on health care utilisation and quality of life in middle-income countries: cross-sectional analysis

Past studies have demonstrated how single non-communicable diseases (NCDs) affect health care utilisation and quality of life (QoL), but not how different NCD combinations interact to affect these. Our study aims to investigate the prevalence of NCD dyad and triad combinations, and the implications of different NCD dyad combinations on health care utilisation and QoL.Our study utilised cross-sectional data from the WHO SAGE study to examine the...