We are a European wide network of academic and industry researchers interested in the development and application of statistical methods to understand:
• Patterns of multimorbidity across the life course;
• The underlying causes of multimorbidity;
• The consequences of multimorbidity;
• The optimal treatment of those with multimorbidity
The group is chaired by Dr Ruth Bowyer (Kings College London & Alan Turing Institute), with Professor Jack Bowden (University of Exeter & GEMINI consortium) in the past. We meet bi-monthly on Zoom, providing the opportunity for group members to present their latest research findings and make new connections and collaborative links.
We are a cross-collaborative community of researchers spanning a wide geographical spread.
We meet every 2 months to discuss statistical methods relevant to Multimorbidity.
These are now hosted on the community of practice Zenodo repository:
https://zenodo.org/communities/statistics_methods_in_multimorbidity_cop
Presentation: “Characterising Multimorbidity Across the Life Course: Leveraging Longitudinal Data to Illuminate Health Trajectories”
Presented by: Professor Rafael Perera Salazar
Meeting: 21 May 2024
Presentation: “Considering frailty in the management of cardiovascular disease in older adults: potential applications of routine healthcare data to tailor management”
Presented by: Dr Oliver Todd
Meeting: 20 March 2024
Presentation: “Evaluating patient (dis)similarity in the context of cluster analysis for phenotype discovery”
Presented by: Maria Pikoula
Meeting: 10 January 2024
Early Career Researcher Lightning Talk Session: 29 November 2023
Dr Rose Penfold, University of Edinburgh: Multimorbidity, Delirium and Outcomes: Harnessing Routine Clinical Data at Scale
Dr Sam Moss, Imperial College London: Assessing causal relationships between idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and type 2 diabetes
Guillermo Romero Moreno, University of Edinburgh: Bayesian inference techniques for the analysis of associations between morbidities
Dr Neave Corcoran, University of Glasgow: Quantifying cost and quality of life trajectories in multimorbidity development
Presentation: “Multimorbidity Patterns in Older Irish Adults”
Presented by: Dr Belinda Hernández
Meeting: 31 May 2023
Presentation 1: “MR-AHC: A fast, efficient and robust method for two-sample summary data Mendelian Randomization based on Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering”
Presented by: Dr Xiaoran Liang
Presentation 2: “The association between multi-morbidity and mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic: an explanatory study using 8 British longitudinal studies”
Presented by: Dr Jacques Wels
Meeting: 22 February 2023
‘Dynamics of multimorbidity and frailty, and their contribution to mortality, nursing home, and home care need in a Catalan primary care cohort of ageing people.’
‘Going from genetic correlation to casuation in multimorbidity research using Mendolean Randomization.’
‘Modelling trajectories of disease in multi-morbidity using population-level linked electronic health records.’
‘The combined impact of physical activity, sedentary behaviour and cardiometabolic comorbidities on cancer risk and survival among cancer survivors: the PaCoCanS project.’