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title: "Genetic and sociodemographic factors associated with trajectories of physical and mental health multimorbidity in a South Asian cohort in the UK: A multistate modelling analysis"
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source_name: "PLOS Medicine"
source_url: "https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004844"
published_at: "2026-07-09T14:00:00.000Z"
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# Genetic and sociodemographic factors associated with trajectories of physical and mental health multimorbidity in a South Asian cohort in the UK: A multistate modelling analysis
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- **Source URL:** [Original Journal Publication](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004844)
- **Published At:** 2026-07-09T14:00:00.000Z
- **Evidence Rating:** Journal Feed
## Executive GIST (TL;DR)
by Daniel Stow, Ruby S. M. Tsang, Ioanna K. Katzourou, Qinqin Huang, Miriam Samuel, Megan L. Wood, Jack F. G. Underwood, Genes and Health Research Team, The LIfespaN multimorbidity research Collaborative (LINC) , Rupert A. Payne, James T. R. Walters, Nicholas J. Timpson, Inês Barroso, Hilary C. Martin, Peter A. Holmans, Marianne B. M. van den Bree, Rohini Mathur, Sarah Finer Background UK South Asian populations are at high risk of physical and mental health multimorbidity, which means they live with multiple long-term conditions. The life course emergence of multimorbidity, its underlying aetiology, and consequences for future health and mortality have yet to be studied in this population. Methods and findings We studied Internalising (depression, anxiety, somatoform disorders) and Cardiometabolic (hypertension, obesity, type 2 diabetes, chronic kidney disease, dyslipidaemia) MultiMorbidity (ICM-MM): the lifetime occurrence of ≥1 internalising mental health condition AND ≥1 cardiometabolic condition in a longitudinal cohort of Genes and Health study participants with linked genetic and health data from 1st April 1997–24th November 2024.
## Clinical Analysis & Structured Key Points
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