Depression and diabetes: The role of syndemics in the social inequality of disability

Most countries including Brazil have steep social gradients in the prevalence of disability. Many disorders contribute to that, and one individual often suffers from more than one disabling disease. The question is to what extent the syndemics framework that assume clustering and interaction between comorbid disorders influence the inequality in disability. We used the National Health Survey of Brazil (PNS 2013 N = 60.202 aged 18+ years), and...