Seminars in arthritis and rheumatism
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Semin. Arthritis Rheum. · Feb 2009
Multimorbidity: prevalence, effect on quality of life and daily functioning, and variation of this effect when one condition is a rheumatic disease.
To examine the prevalence and effect of multimorbidity on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and daily functioning in the general population, and to analyze the influence on HRQoL and daily functioning of multimorbidity including a rheumatic disease. ⋯ Multimorbidity is frequent in the general population and can considerably impair daily functioning and HRQoL. Having a rheumatic disease worsens these outcomes.