Cause of death in Alzheimer's disease.
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.
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Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
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Petterson
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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