BACKGROUND: Chronic pain (CP) is an ill-defined condition, often under-recorded in primary care records. AIM: To determine prevalence, evidence of health inequalities, primary care consultation rates, and healthcare utilisation costs of CP…
INTRODUCTION: Many people experience persistent symptoms for more than 12 weeks following SARS-CoV-2 infection, which is known as post-COVID-19 condition (PCS) or Long COVID (LC). PCS can impair people's quality of life and daily functionin…
BACKGROUND: Estimates of chronic pain prevalence using coded primary care data are likely to be substantially lower than estimates derived from community surveys. Most primary care studies have estimated chronic pain prevalence using data s…
BACKGROUND: Long-term exposure to air pollution concentrations is known to be adversely associated with a broad range of single non-communicable diseases, but its role in multimorbidity has not been investigated in the UK. We aimed to asses…
OBJECTIVES: Explore inequalities in risk factors, mental and physical health morbidity in non-pregnant women of reproductive age in contact with mental health services and how these vary per ethnicity. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. …
BACKGROUND: Defining multimorbidity has proved elusive in spite of attempts to standardise definitions. For national studies, a broad definition is required to capture national diversity. For locally based studies, the definition may need t…