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March 2018

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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Pragna Patel, Colin Speight, Alice Maida, Fleetwood Loustalot, Denise Giles, Sam Phiri, Sundeep Gupta, Pratima Raghunathan

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The epidemiology of adolescents living with perinatally acquired HIV: A cross-region global cohort analysis

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Raj S. Bhopal, Laurence Gruer, Genevieve Cezard, Anne Douglas, Markus F. C. Steiner, Andrew Millard, Duncan Buchanan, S. Vittal Katikireddi, Aziz Sheikh

Multimorbidity and survival for patients with acute myocardial infarction in England and Wales: Latent class analysis of a nationwide population-based cohort

Marlous Hall, Tatendashe B. Dondo, Andrew T. Yan, Mamas A. Mamas, Adam D. Timmis, John E. Deanfield, Tomas Jernberg, Harry Hemingway, Keith A. A. Fox, Chris P. Gale

Trajectories of functional decline in older adults with neuropsychiatric and cardiovascular multimorbidity: A Swedish cohort study

Davide L. Vetrano, Debora Rizzuto, Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga, Graziano Onder, Anna-Karin Welmer, Roberto Bernabei, Alessandra Marengoni, Laura Fratiglioni

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

Jenny Tran, Robyn Norton, Nathalie Conrad, Fatemeh Rahimian, Dexter Canoy, Milad Nazarzadeh, Kazem Rahimi

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Oliver T. Mytton, Christopher Jackson, Arno Steinacher, Anna Goodman, Claudia Langenberg, Simon Griffin, Nick Wareham, James Woodcock

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Brant M. Wagener, Parker J. Hu, Joo-Yeun Oh, Cilina A. Evans, Jillian R. Richter, Jaideep Honavar, Angela P. Brandon, Judy Creighton, Shannon W. Stephens, Charity Morgan, Randal O. Dull, Marisa B. Marques, Jeffrey D. Kerby, Jean-Francois Pittet, Rakesh P. Patel

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Validation of a genetic risk score for atrial fibrillation: A prospective multicenter cohort study

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Cerebral white matter disease and functional decline in older adults from the Northern Manhattan Study: A longitudinal cohort study

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Landon Myer, Tamsin K. Phillips, Allison Zerbe, Kirsty Brittain, Maia Lesosky, Nei-Yuan Hsiao, Robert H. Remien, Claude A. Mellins, James A. McIntyre, Elaine J. Abrams