MedPage Today (8/12, George) reports a study found that “men had higher mortality and hospitalization rates after a dementia diagnosis compared with women, even after controlling for age and comorbidities.” Researchers observed that “crude 1-year mortality rates were lower for women with incident dementia compared with men (21.8% vs 27.2%). After adjusting for age, race, ethnicity, Medicaid dual eligibility, medical comorbidity burden, and access to healthcare resources, the hazard of death associated with male sex was 1.24.” They added that “all-cause hospitalizations were lower for women with newly diagnosed dementia (46.9% vs 50.5%). The adjusted hazard ratio of hospitalization associated with male sex was 1.08.” Furthermore, men “had higher rates of hospice stay, neuroimaging services, and hospitalization for neurodegenerative disease diagnoses.” The study was published in JAMA Neurology.
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