Stage

the consortium’s research will use longitudinal cohorts and biobanks spanning the entire life course to explore how a person ages with multi-morbidity, which means having two or more long-term health conditions, and how it could be prevented.

January 2024 · Andrea Piano Mortari
Population with 1 or more chronic condition

The future of the elderly population health status: Filling a knowledge gap

We find that the prevalence of main chronic conditions in Europe is catching‐up with the United States and significant heterogeneity in the evolution of gender and educational gradients

November 2021 · Vincenzo Atella, Federico Belotti, Dana Goldman, Tadeja Gracner, Andrea Piano Mortari, Bryan Tysinger
Comorbidity share

Trends in age‐related disease burden and healthcare utilization

Prevalence of multiple chronic diseases and healthcare utilization increased among older and younger adults between 2004 and 2014

February 2019 · Vincenzo Atella, Andrea Piano Mortari, Joanna Kopinska, Federico Belotti, Francesco Lapi, Claudio Cricelli, Luigi Fontana
Inpatient and outpatient costs differentials wrt normal weight

Excess body weight increases the burden of age-associated chronic diseases and their associated health care expenditures

In this very large study, 557,145 men and women older than 18 years were analyzed to assess the association between aging, excessive adiposity and health costs

October 2015 · Vincenzo Atella, Joanna Kopinska, Gerardo Medea, Federico Belotti, Valeria Tosti, Andrea Piano Mortari, Claudio Cricelli, Luigi Fontana