Healio (8/27, Gramigna) reports, “Dementia may be linked to nearly three times more deaths in the United States than official records show,” investigators concluded after analyzing “data of 7,342 noninstitutionalized individuals aged 70 to 99 years with baseline exposure assessment in 2000 and follow-up through 2009.”
Medscape (8/27, Harrison, Subscription Publication) reports the study revealed that “from 2000 through 2009, an estimated 13.6% of deaths were attributable to dementia – 2.7 times more than the 5.0% of death certificates that state that dementia was an underlying cause of death.” The findings were published online in JAMA Neurology.
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— “Dementia deaths may be nearly three times higher than current estimates, “Joe Gramigna, Healio, August 27, 2020