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- 2016
Multimorbidity: Who Will Manage?DOI: 10.15226/2573-864X/1/1/00104 Abstract: Increasingly aging population worldwide and changing health care landscape highlight a problem of multimorbidity [1-4]. Multimorbidity is characterized by coexistence of two or more concurrent long-term health conditions and currently it represents one of the most significant challenges [2-7], taken into account that more than two thirds of older individuals are affected [4]. Co-existing chronic diseases have an impact on quality of life, life expectancy and economic component of care [5-9]. The vast majority of patients with multimorbidity have chronic Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) [4, 10-12]
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