PMID: 11927204Apr 3, 2002Paper

Self-rated health, chronic diseases, and symptoms among middle-aged and elderly men and women

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Anu Molarius, Staffan Janson

Abstract

The objective was to study the association between chronic diseases, symptoms, and poor self-rated health among men and women and in different age groups, and to assess the contribution of chronic diseases and symptoms to the burden of poor self-rated health in the general population. Self-rated health and self-reported diseases and symptoms were investigated in a population sample of 6,061 men and women aged 35-79 years in Värmland County in Sweden. Odds ratios (OR) and population attributable risks (PAR) were calculated to quantify the contribution of chronic diseases and symptoms to poor self-rated health. Depression, neurological disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and tiredness/weakness had the largest contributions to poor self-rated health in individuals. Among the elderly (65-79 years), neurological disease and cancer had the largest contribution to self-rated health in men, and renal disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and cancer in women. Among the middle-aged (35-64 years), depression and tiredness/weakness were also important, especially in women. From a population perspective, tiredness/weakness explained the largest part of poor self-rated health due to its high prevalence in the population. Depression and musculoskeletal p...Continue Reading

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