Prevalence of multimorbidity in men of African descent with and without prostate cancer in Soweto, South Africa

• Witness Mapanga ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wmapanga@witshealth.co.za, witnessmapanga@yahoo.co.uk

  Affiliations Noncommunicable Diseases Research Division, Wits Health Consortium (PTY) Ltd, Johannesburg, South Africa, SAMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways to Health Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of the Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, SAMRC Common Epithelial Cancer Research Centre, Cape Town, South Africa, Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8719-3084

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• Shane A. Norris,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Noncommunicable Diseases Research Division, Wits Health Consortium (PTY) Ltd, Johannesburg, South Africa, SAMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways to Health Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of the Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, SAMRC Common Epithelial Cancer Research Centre, Cape Town, South Africa, Global Health Research Institute, School of Human Development and Health, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

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• Ashleigh Craig,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Yoanna Pumpalova,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Oluwatosin A. Ayeni,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Noncommunicable Diseases Research Division, Wits Health Consortium (PTY) Ltd, Johannesburg, South Africa, Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1132-2860

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• Wenlong Carl Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Noncommunicable Diseases Research Division, Wits Health Consortium (PTY) Ltd, Johannesburg, South Africa, National Cancer Registry, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Judith S. Jacobson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Alfred I. Neugut,

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

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Mazvita Muchengeti,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Cancer Registry, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Audrey Pentz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Noncommunicable Diseases Research Division, Wits Health Consortium (PTY) Ltd, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Sean Doherty,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Shauli Minkowitz,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Mohammed Haffejee,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Tim Rebbeck,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Maureen Joffe

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Noncommunicable Diseases Research Division, Wits Health Consortium (PTY) Ltd, Johannesburg, South Africa, SAMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways to Health Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of the Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, SAMRC Common Epithelial Cancer Research Centre, Cape Town, South Africa

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