Multimorbidity in Aboriginal and non‐Aboriginal people

Neuroscience Research Australia (N he findings by Randall and colleagues, based on linked T 10-year New South Wales hospital and mortality data, confirm that multimorbidity (the presence of two or more chronic conditions) is about two and a half times as frequent among age-, sexand socio-economic status-matched Aboriginal than among non-Aboriginal people admitted to NSW hospitals; that oneyear mortality is similarly two and a half times as high for the Aboriginal people in this linked dataset; and, importantly, that the higher number of morbidities for hospitalised Aboriginal people potentially explains a large proportion of the difference in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal mortality.