Trends in multimorbidity and polypharmacy in the Flemish-Belgian population between 2000 and 2015

• Marjan van den Akker ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marjan van den Akker, Séverine Henrard

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Marjan.vandenAkker@maastrichtuniversity.nl

  Affiliations Department of Family Medicine, School Caphri, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1022-8637

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• Bert Vaes ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5244-1930

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• Geert Goderis ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium

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• Gijs Van Pottelbergh ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium

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• Tine De Burghgraeve ,

  Roles Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium

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• Séverine Henrard

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marjan van den Akker, Séverine Henrard

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium, Louvain Drug Research Institute and Institute of Health and Society (IRSS), Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Brussels, Belgium

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