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Moreover, changing lifestyle has led to the emergence of multimorbidity among tribals in India. We aimed to estimate the prevalence and assess the correlates of multimorbidity among tribal older adults in India.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>We employed nationally representative data from the World Health Organization's Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health conducted in 2015. We included 522 participants aged \u226550 years who reported their caste to be \u2018Scheduled Tribe' in the survey. A multivariable regression model assessed the association between multimorbidity and various attributes.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Arthritis, cataract, and hypertension were the most common chronic conditions. The overall prevalence of multimorbidity was ~22.61%. We observed a higher likelihood of having multimorbidity among respondents aged \u226580 years [AOR: 4.08 (1.17\u201314.18)] than the younger age groups, and among the most affluent group [AOR: 2.64 (1.06\u20136.56)] than the most deprived class.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>The prevalence of multimorbidity among tribal older adults is emerging which cannot be overlooked. Health and wellness centers may be a window of opportunity to provide egalitarian and quality preventive and curative services to achieve universal health coverage. Future studies should explore the outcomes of multimorbidity in terms of healthcare utilization, expenditure, and quality of life in this group.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpubh.2023.1217753","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,24]],"date-time":"2023-08-24T10:54:03Z","timestamp":1692874443000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Non-communicable disease multimorbidity among tribal older adults in India: evidence from Study on Global AGEing and adult health, 2015"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Abhinav","family":"Sinha","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Srikanta","family":"Kanungo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Debdutta","family":"Bhattacharya","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Harpreet","family":"Kaur","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sanghamitra","family":"Pati","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"e1262","DOI":"10.1016\/S2214-109X(18)30448-0","article-title":"India's escalating burden of non-communicable diseases","volume":"6","author":"Arokiasamy","year":"2018","journal-title":"The Lancet global health."},{"key":"B2","volume-title":"Multimorbidity: A Priority for Global Health Research.","author":"MacMahon","year":"2018"},{"key":"B3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"12853","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph182312853","article-title":"Association of oral health with multimorbidity among older adults: findings from the longitudinal ageing study in India, wave-1, 2017\u20132019","volume":"18","author":"Kanungo","year":"2021","journal-title":"Int J Environ Res Public Health."},{"key":"B4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"4623","DOI":"10.4103\/jfmpc.jfmpc_1598_21","article-title":"Kaleidoscopic use of World Health Organization's Study on global ageing and adult health data set to explore multimorbidity and its outcomes in low and middle-income countries: an insider view","volume":"10","author":"Sinha","year":"2021","journal-title":"J. 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