Long‐term survival and predictors of mortality in Alzheimer's disease and multi‐infarct dementia | Zendy

Mölsä P. K. | Zendy; Marttila R. J. | Zendy; Rinne U. K. | Zendy

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Long‐term survival and predictors of mortality in Alzheimer's disease and multi‐infarct dementia

Author(s) -

Mölsä P. K.,

Marttila R. J.,

Rinne U. K.

Publication year - 1995

Publication title -

acta neurologica scandinavica

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.967

H-Index - 95

eISSN - 1600-0404

pISSN - 0001-6314

DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1995.tb00426.x

Subject(s) - medicine , dementia , disease , relative risk , survival rate , relative survival , degenerative disease , epidemiology , confidence interval , cancer registry

Long‐term survival was examined for 218 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 115 patients with multi‐infarct dementia (MID). The 14‐year survival rate for AD was 2.4% versus an expected rate of 16.6%, and for MID 1.7% versus 13.3% expected. MID showed a more malignant natural course than AD. Men carried a less favourable survival prognosis than women, both in AD and MID: the relative risk of dying for women was half that for men in both diseases. In MID, advanced disability indicated a relative risk of dying over twice as high. In both diseases the risk of death was substantially higher in the event of occurrence of primitive reflexes.

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