title: Deaths attributable to Alzheimer's disease in the United States.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study provided 2 estimates of the number of deaths attributable to Alzheimer's disease in the United States.
  
  
  METHODS
  One estimate was based on data from the East Boston, Mass, study. The second was based on a simulation using population-based estimates of prevalence and separate estimates of excess death by duration of disease.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Despite different methods and very different estimates of prevalence, these 2 methods led to very similar estimates of 173,000 and 163,000 excess deaths.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These estimates suggest that 7.1% of all deaths in the United States in 1995 are attributable to Alzheimer's disease, placing it on a par with cerebrovascular diseases as the third leading cause of death.
authors.affiliation: Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA. ewbank@pop.upenn.edu
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Ewbank
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality*; D001900:Boston / Q000453:epidemiology; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D018450:Disease Progression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015993:Life Tables; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015233:Models, Statistical; D011159:Population Surveillance; D015995:Prevalence; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology