Disease Burden and the Accumulation of Multimorbidity of Noncommunicable Diseases in a Rural Population in Henan, China: Cross-sectional Study

Ying Chen   ¹ , MS ;   Mingming Pan   ¹ , PhD ;   Yaling He   ¹ , PhD ;   Xiaokang Dong   ¹ , PhD ;   Ze Hu   ¹ , MS ;   Jian Hou   ¹ , PhD ;   Yining Bao   ² , PhD ;   Jing Yang   ¹ , MS ;   Yinghao Yuchi   ¹ , PhD ;   Ruiying Li   ¹ , PhD ;   Linghui Zhu   ¹ , MS ;   Ning Kang   ¹ , MS ;   Wei Liao   ¹ , PhD ;   Shuoyi Li   ¹ , MS ;   Chongjian Wang   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Lei Zhang   ^{2, 3, 4 *} , PhD

¹ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

² China-Australia Joint Research Center for Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, Xi’an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

³ Artificial Intelligence and Modelling in Epidemiology Program, Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health, Melbourne, Australia

⁴ Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

*these authors contributed equally