Table 3 Most common clusters of conditions in 5-year childhood cancer survivors with chronic multimorbidity, Western Australia, 1987-2019.

From: Epidemiology of multimorbidity in childhood cancer survivors: a matched cohort study of inpatient hospitalisations in Western Australia

Cluster group

The most common conditions in the cluster group

Mental disorders

Psychoactive substance dependence, alcohol misuse, other mental and behavioural disorders

Cardiovascular, endocrine, renal and musculoskeletal diseases

Hypertension, diabetes, kidney disease, and musculoskeletal diseases

Endocrine and neurological diseases

Epilepsy, hypothyroidism, and other liver diseases

Renal, cardiovascular and endocrine diseases

Kidney disease, hypertension, and other liver diseases

  1. Clusters of chronic health conditions were identified using hierarchical cluster analysis, based on the Jaccard distancing and Ward’s minimum variance methods. The analysis included conditions with a prevalence of more than 5% in 5-year childhood cancer survivors with chronic multimorbidity at study exit (N = 424 individuals).
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