Multimorbidity prevalence and patterns and their associations with health literacy among chronic kidney disease patients.
Matheus S Gurgel do AmaralSijmen A ReijneveldLaura M G MeemsJosué AlmansaG J NavisAndrea F de WinterPublished in: Journal of nephrology (2022)
Among CKD patients, low health literacy is associated with more multimorbidity. Health literacy is not associated with patterns of multimorbidity in younger patients, but a difference was observed in older ones. Improving low health literacy could be an intervention efficient also in decreasing multimorbidity in CKD patients.