The DOI matches its Crossref record; 26 of the 26 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Seven chronic conditions: their impact on US adults' activity levels and use of medical services
Abstract
OBJECTIVES. This paper analyzes the impact of seven chronic conditions (three nonfatal: arthritis, visual impairment, hearing impairment; four fatal: ischemic heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes mellitus, malignant neoplasms) on US adults aged 18 and older. Impact refers to how readily a condition prompts activity limitations, physician visits, and hospital stays. METHODS. Data come from three national health surveys and vital statistics. For comparability, a single disease classification scheme was applied, and new rates were estimated. Frequency, impact, and prominence of the target conditions are studied via rates, ratios of rates, and ranks, respectively. RESULTS. In young adulthood, the nonfatal conditions prompt limitations less readily than do the fatal ones, but by older ages, arthritis and visual impairment have a limiting impact equivalent to that of fatal conditions. Despite high prevalence and limitations, nonfatal conditions stand well below fatal conditions for health services use. CONCLUSIONS. Although statistics on frequency, impact, and prominence all indicate conditions "importance," they give only weak clues about specific service needs of affected persons. The persistent finding that nonfatal conditions do not receive health services care commensurate with their prevalence and impact reflects long-standing imbalanced attention on fatal conditions in research and medical care.
Overview
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
In the citing paper
“MDE was included in a number of these studies and the results typically showed that musculoskeletal disorders and MDE were associated with the highest levels of disability at the individual level among all commonly occurring disorders assessed. The most compelling study of this sort outside the US was based on fifteen national surveys carried out as part of the WMH surveys.82 Disorder-specific dis”
From The Costs of Depression (2012) · cites this paper as [80]
In the citing paper
“Second, even if depression is more a consequence than a cause of chronic physical disorders, as it appears to be for some disorders, comorbid depression is often associated with a worse course of the physical disorder. 187-190”
From Time for united action on depression: a Lancet–World Psychiatric Association Commission (2022) · cites this paper as [187]
Citations
Cites
Differences in the use of procedures between women and men hospitalized for coronary heart disease
Ayanian, J. Z., & Epstein, A. M. (1991) · New England Journal of Medicine · doi:10.1056/nejm199107253250401 · Cited by 1,188
Sex Differences in the Management of Coronary Artery Disease
Steingart, R. M., Packer, M., Hamm, P., Coglianese, M. E., Gersh, B. J., Geltman, E. M., Sollano, J., Katz, S., Moyé, L., Basta, L. L., et al. (1991) · New England Journal of Medicine · doi:10.1056/nejm199107253250402 · Cited by 898
Healy, B. (1991) · New England Journal of Medicine · doi:10.1056/nejm199107253250408 · Cited by 560
Sex Bias in Considering Coronary Bypass Surgery
Tobin, J. N., WASSERTHEIL-SMOLLER, S., WEXLER, J. P., STEINGART, R. M., BUDNER, N., LENSE, L., & WACHSPRESS, J. (1987) · Annals of Internal Medicine · doi:10.7326/0003-4819-107-1-19 · Cited by 488
Comorbidity and its impact on disability
Verbrugge, L. M., Lepkowski, J. M., & Imanaka, Y. (1989) · The Milbank Quarterly · doi:10.2307/3350223 · Cited by 427
Self-citationLongitudinal study of physical ability in the oldest-old.
Harris, T. B., Kovar, M. G., Suzman, R., Kleinman, J. C., & Feldman, J. J. (1989) · American Journal of Public Health · doi:10.2105/ajph.79.6.698 · Cited by 360
Gender Differences in the Treatment and Outcome of Acute Myocardial Infarction
Maynard, C. C. (1992) · Archives of Internal Medicine · doi:10.1001/archinte.152.5.972 · Cited by 352
Glasser, D. B., Lane, J. M., Huvos, A. G., Marcove, R. C., & Rosen, G. (1992) · Cancer · doi:10.1002/1097-0142(19920201)69:3 · Cited by 278
Differences Between Women and Men in Survival After Myocardial Infarction
Fiebach, N. H. (1990) · JAMA · doi:10.1001/jama.1990.03440080070026 · Cited by 240
Tumor spectrum in cancer family syndrome (hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer)
Mecklin, J., & Järvinen, H. (1991) · Cancer · doi:10.1002/1097-0142(19910901)68:5 · Cited by 193
Flagged first, then by citations
Research works printed but not linked: 5
- 1988, Epidemiol., 41, 719
- 1971;24:469-487. Dept of Education, National Institute on
- Patrick D, Peach H. Disablement in the Community. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press; 1989:197-211.
- Mor V, 1992, Health Ser Res., 27, 337
- Davidson JA, 1991, Diabetes in Minorities., 90, 153
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Kessler, R. C., & Üstün, T. B. (2004) · International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research · doi:10.1002/mpr.168 · Cited by 4,771
The Epidemiology of Depression Across Cultures
Kessler, R. C., & Bromet, E. J. (2013) · Annual Review of Public Health · doi:10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031912-114409 · Cited by 2,657
Stuck, A. E., Walthert, J. M., Nikolaus, T., Büla, C., Hohmann, C., & Beck, J. C. (1999) · Social Science & Medicine · doi:10.1016/s0277-9536(98)00370-0 · Cited by 1,887
Posttraumatic stress disorder: the burden to the individual and to society.
Kessler, R. C. (2000) · PubMed · Cited by 1,445
Metadata
- Authors
- Verbrugge, L. M., & Patrick, D. L.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- ORCID
- Patrick, D L
- Venue
- American Journal of Public Health
- Publisher
- American Public Health Association
- Published
- 1995-02
- Volume
- 85
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 173-182
- ISSN
- 0090-0036 (ISSN-L)
- 1541-0048
- OpenAlex
- W2121521872
- Cited by
- 356
- References
- 25
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 15 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 13
- FWCI
- 14.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Journal of Public Health (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Health and Medical Studies
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Healthcare Policy and Management
- Keywords
- chronic disease, activity limitation, health care utilization, physician visits, length of hospital stay, arthritis, visual impairment, hearing loss, ischemic heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes mellitus, cancer, health care disparities
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aging, Chronic Disease, Physical Exertion, Female, Health Services, Health Surveys, Hospitalization, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Sex Factors, United States, Prevalence
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
