• 1. School of Traditional Chinese Medicine & School of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210023, P. R. China;
  • 2. School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, P. R. China;
  • 3. Wangjing Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100102, P. R. China;
  • 4. Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100050, P. R. China;
  • 5. School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles 90001, USA;
  • 6. Institute of Basic Clinical Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, P. R. China;
WEI Xu, Email: weixu.007@163.com
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Comorbidity is a prominent public health problem in the elderly population. To carry out research on the comorbidity of the elderly is not only an important breakthrough to realize the national strategy of actively responding to the aging population, but also a vivid practice of earnestly implementing the "Healthy China" and other action programs. Based on the major public health issues of elderly comorbidity, this paper lists the main contents and methods of elderly comorbidity research from the perspective of secondary research and empirical research, and holds that this field contains both the profound thought of "holistic concept" and the advanced idea of "integrative medicine". At the same time, under the background of the new era, the gradual deepening of the research in this field may give birth to a brand-new discipline - geriatric comorbidity.

Citation: ZHANG Yili, HUANG Xinyi, QI Baoyu, XU Aili, SUN Kai, SHEN Hao, CHAI Yan, XIE Yanming, ZHU Liguo, WEI Xu. Practical significance, content, methods and prospects of the study of geriatric comorbidity. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2023, 23(7): 862-868. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.202302103 Copy

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