In a Guest Editorial, Kazem Rahimi, Carolyn Lam, and Steven Steinhubl discuss PLOS Medicine's Special Issue on cardiovascular disease and multimorbidity. The demographic shift towards older populations across the globe and the relatively slower decline in morbidity compared with mortality from cardiovascular disease have resulted in increasing numbers of people with both cardiovascular disease and other chronic and disabling conditions. The authors call for interdisciplinary research and personalized cardiovascular care to better manage patients with cardiovascular disease and multimorbidity.
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Editorials
PLOS Medicine 2017 Reviewer and Editorial Board Thank You
PLOS Medicine: published March 15, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002550
Time for high-burden countries to lead the tuberculosis research agenda
PLOS Medicine: published March 23, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002544
Cardiovascular disease and multimorbidity: A call for interdisciplinary research and personalized cardiovascular care
PLOS Medicine: published March 27, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002545
Essay
Forced anal examinations to ascertain sexual orientation and sexual behavior: An abusive and medically unsound practice
PLOS Medicine: published March 16, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002536
Perspectives
The importance and challenges of shared decision making in older people with multimorbidity
PLOS Medicine: published March 13, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002530
Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: The past, present, and future of blood pressure- and cholesterol-lowering treatments
PLOS Medicine: published March 20, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002539
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What is the value of multidisciplinary care for chronic kidney disease?
PLOS Medicine: published March 27, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002533
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Cardiovascular disease: The rise of the genetic risk score
PLOS Medicine: published March 30, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002546
Health in Action
Integrating HIV and hypertension management in low-resource settings: Lessons from Malawi
PLOS Medicine: published March 7, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002523
Policy Forums
Surveillance of antimicrobial consumption in animal production sectors of low- and middle-income countries: Optimizing use and addressing antimicrobial resistance
PLOS Medicine: published March 1, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002521
Global child and adolescent mental health: The orphan of development assistance for health
PLOS Medicine: published March 9, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002524
Research Articles
The epidemiology of adolescents living with perinatally acquired HIV: A cross-region global cohort analysis
PLOS Medicine: published March 1, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002514
Mortality, ethnicity, and country of birth on a national scale, 2001–2013: A retrospective cohort (Scottish Health and Ethnicity Linkage Study)
PLOS Medicine: published March 1, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002515
Delays in completion and results reporting of clinical trials under the Paediatric Regulation in the European Union: A cohort study
PLOS Medicine: published March 1, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002520
Multimorbidity and survival for patients with acute myocardial infarction in England and Wales: Latent class analysis of a nationwide population-based cohort
PLOS Medicine: published March 6, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002501
Trajectories of functional decline in older adults with neuropsychiatric and cardiovascular multimorbidity: A Swedish cohort study
PLOS Medicine: published March 6, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002503
Patterns and temporal trends of comorbidity among adult patients with incident cardiovascular disease in the UK between 2000 and 2014: A population-based cohort study
PLOS Medicine: published March 6, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002513
The current and potential health benefits of the National Health Service Health Check cardiovascular disease prevention programme in England: A microsimulation study
PLOS Medicine: published March 6, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002517
Effect and cost-effectiveness of educating mothers about childhood DPT vaccination on immunisation uptake, knowledge, and perceptions in Uttar Pradesh, India: A randomised controlled trial
PLOS Medicine: published March 6, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002519
Role of heme in lung bacterial infection after trauma hemorrhage and stored red blood cell transfusion: A preclinical experimental study
PLOS Medicine: published March 9, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002522
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Physical activity levels in adults and older adults 3–4 years after pedometer-based walking interventions: Long-term follow-up of participants from two randomised controlled trials in UK primary care
PLOS Medicine: published March 9, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002526
Progression of diabetes, heart disease, and stroke multimorbidity in middle-aged women: A 20-year cohort study
PLOS Medicine: published March 13, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002516
Validation of a genetic risk score for atrial fibrillation: A prospective multicenter cohort study
PLOS Medicine: published March 13, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002525
A clinical decision support tool for improving adherence to guidelines on anticoagulant therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation at risk of stroke: A cluster-randomized trial in a Swedish primary care setting (the CDS-AF study)
PLOS Medicine: published March 13, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002528
Cerebral white matter disease and functional decline in older adults from the Northern Manhattan Study: A longitudinal cohort study
PLOS Medicine: published March 20, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002529
Causes of death and infant mortality rates among full-term births in the United States between 2010 and 2012: An observational study
PLOS Medicine: published March 20, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002531
Blood pressure-lowering treatment strategies based on cardiovascular risk versus blood pressure: A meta-analysis of individual participant data
PLOS Medicine: published March 20, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002538
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HIV treatment eligibility expansion and timely antiretroviral treatment initiation following enrollment in HIV care: A metaregression analysis of programmatic data from 22 countries
PLOS Medicine: published March 23, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002534
Cost-effectiveness of multidisciplinary care in mild to moderate chronic kidney disease in the United States: A modeling study
PLOS Medicine: published March 27, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002532
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Antiviral efficacy of favipiravir against Ebola virus: A translational study in cynomolgus macaques
PLOS Medicine: published March 27, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002535
Comorbidity health pathways in heart failure patients: A sequences-of-regressions analysis using cross-sectional data from 10,575 patients in the Swedish Heart Failure Registry
PLOS Medicine: published March 27, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002540
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Multimorbidity in patients with heart failure from 11 Asian regions: A prospective cohort study using the ASIAN-HF registry
PLOS Medicine: published March 27, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002541
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Comparative analysis of the association between 35 frailty scores and cardiovascular events, cancer, and total mortality in an elderly general population in England: An observational study
PLOS Medicine: published March 27, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002543
Transmission of HIV-1 drug resistance mutations within partner-pairs: A cross-sectional study of a primary HIV infection cohort
PLOS Medicine: published March 27, 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002537