TY - JOUR AU - Prior, James A. AU - Rushton, Claire A. AU - Jordan, Kelvin P. AU - Kadam, Umesh T. PY - 2012 DA - 2012/09/03 TI - Comorbidity Cohort (2C) study: Cardiovascular disease severity and comorbid osteoarthritis in primary care JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 295 VL - 12 IS - 1 AB - Two of the commonest chronic diseases experienced by older people in the general population are cardiovascular diseases and osteoarthritis. These conditions also commonly co-occur, which is only partly explained by age. Yet, there have been few studies investigating specific a priori hypotheses in testing the comorbid interaction between two chronic diseases and related health and healthcare outcomes. It is also unknown whether the stage or severity of the chronic disease influences the comorbidity impact. The overall plan is to investigate the interaction between cardiovascular severity groups (hypertension, ischaemic heart disease and heart failure) and osteoarthritis comorbidity, and their longitudinal impact on health and healthcare outcomes relative to either condition alone. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-12-295 DO - 10.1186/1472-6963-12-295 ID - Prior2012 ER -