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Our new paper on chronic illnesses and depression featured in UKRI news

    Our new paper, Cluster and survival analysis of UK biobank data reveals associations between physical multimorbidity clusters and subsequent depression, has just been published in Nature Communications Medicine. The results have been highlighted by the MRC on the UKRI website and featured in its newsletter. See:

    UKRI News: https://www.ukri.org/news/multiple-chronic-illnesses-linked-to-higher-risk-of-depression
    Edinburgh University psot: https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/multiple-chronic-illnesses-could-double-risk-of-depression

    and

    Full paper at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-025-00825-7
    Code at: https://github.com/laurendelong21/clusterMed

    Our second analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on Scotland’s care-homes published in Age and Ageing

      Following from our previous analysis of care-home outbreaks of COVID-19 in Scotland in 2020, which appeared in Age and Ageing in 2021, our paper on the “Analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on Scotland’s care-homes from March 2020 to October 2021: national linked data cohort analysis” has just been published in the same journal.

      This shows that, in total 296 (27.1%) care-homes had one outbreak, 220 (20.1%) had two, 91 (8.3%) had three, and 68 (6.2%) had four or more. A general conclusion is that COVID-19 mitigation measures appear to have been beneficial, although the impact on residents remained severe until early 2021.