Time Trends in Prevalence of Chronic Diseases and Multimorbidity Not Only due to Aging: Data from General Practices and Health Surveys

• Sandra H van Oostrom ,

  * E-mail: Sandra.van.oostrom@rivm.nl

  Affiliation Centre for Nutrition, Prevention and Health Services, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands

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• Ronald Gijsen,

  Affiliation Centre for Health and Society, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands

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• Irina Stirbu,

  Affiliation Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL), Utrecht, the Netherlands

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• Joke C Korevaar,

  Affiliation Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL), Utrecht, the Netherlands

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• Francois G Schellevis,

  Affiliations Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL), Utrecht, the Netherlands, Department of General Practice and Elderly Care Medicine /EMGO Institute for health and care research, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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• H. Susan J Picavet,

  Affiliation Centre for Nutrition, Prevention and Health Services, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands

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• Nancy Hoeymans

  Affiliation Centre for Health and Society, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands

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