title: Cause of death in Alzheimer's disease.
abstract: Cause of death among 917 of the 959 subjects in a population-based incidence cohort with Alzheimer's disease (AD) during the years 1960 to 1984 was compared to that of an age- and gender-matched control group (n = 703). In general, a summary of the diagnostic codes entered anywhere on a death certificate suggests that control subjects had more cardiovascular disease and neoplasms than did patients, while patients more often had a diagnostic code of bronchitis/pneumonia (P < 0.01). By logistic regression, this difference remained statistically significant after adjusting for age and gender.
authors.affiliation: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Beard
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kokmen
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sigler
authors.forename: G E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Petterson
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: O'Brien
mesh_terms: D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000401:mortality*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002423:Cause of Death / Q000639:trends; D003644:Death Certificates; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008910:Minnesota / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D017678:Sex Distribution