Prevalence of Multimorbidity in Lithuania: Insights from National Health Insurance Fund Data.

Dovilė Ramanauskaitė, Roma Puronaitė, Audronė Jakaitienė, Sigita Glaveckaitė

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Article in Journal of cardiovascular development and disease, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Dovilė RamanauskaitėClinic of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, 03101 Vilnius, Lithuania.ORCID 0009-0003-2865-1673

Roma PuronaitėClinic of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, 03101 Vilnius, Lithuania.ORCID 0000-0001-7571-4989

Audronė JakaitienėInstitute of Data Science and Digital Technologies, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius University, 08412 Vilnius, Lithuania.

Sigita GlaveckaitėClinic of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, 03101 Vilnius, Lithuania.ORCID 0000-0002-5291-9954

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(1) Background: As the burden of multimorbidity is increasing worldwide, little is known about its prevalence in Lithuania. We aimed to estimate the prevalence of chronic conditions and multimorbidity among Lithuanian adults and assess their impact on healthcare utilization. (2) Methods: A retrospective analysis of the Lithuanian National Health Insurance Fund database was performed in 2019. Multimorbidity was defined as having two or more chronic conditions. (3) Results: Of the Lithuanian population, 1,193,668 (51.5%) had at least one chronic condition, and 717,386 (31.0%) had multimorbidity. Complex multimorbidity (CM) was present in 670,312 (28.9%) patients, with 85.0% having complex cardiac multimorbidity (CCM) and 15.0% having complex non-cardiac multimorbidity (CNM). Multimorbidity increased with age, from 2% at age 18-24 to 77.5% at age 80 and above, and was more prevalent among women (63.3% vs. 36.7%,

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cardiac multimorbiditychronic diseaseshealthcare resourcesmultimorbidity

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PMID39997481

DOI10.3390/jcdd12020047

PMCPMC11856744

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