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 hod a diagnostic code of bronchitis/pneumonia (P < 0.01). By logistic regression, this difference remained statistically significant after adjusting for age and gender.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 195-200 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Annals of Epidemiology |
Volume | 6 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 1996 |
Keywords
- Alzheimer's disease
- cause of death
- epidemiology
- mortality
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Epidemiology