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Delusional disorder in old age and the risk of developing dementia
— a nationwide register-based study | | Author(s) | Alex Korner, Ana G Lopez, Lise Lauritzen |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 12, no 5, September 2008 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, September 2008 |
| Pages | pp 625-629 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Delusion ; Dementia ; Correlation ; Longitudinal surveys ; Denmark. |
| Annotation | By linkage of the psychiatric and the somatic nationwide registers of all out- and in-patients with hospital contact in Denmark, this study included all patients aged 60+ with first-ever from 1994 to 2001 with the index main diagnosis delusional disorder. First contact osteoarthritis patients as well as the general population were used as controls. 1437 patients with persistent delusional disorder and 7302 patients with osteoarthritis were included. Median follow-up time until first diagnosis of dementia at discharge was 1.87 and 4.40 years respectively. The probability of getting dementia diagnosis was estimated using Poisson regression models with dementia as the outcome of interest. Patients with very late first-contact delusional disorder had an 8.14 times increased rate of subsequently developing dementia compared with very late first contact osteoarthritis patients. Compared with the general population, the rate ratio was 5.49. Very late first contact delusional disorder increases the risk of subsequently getting a diagnosis of dementia 5-8 times compared with osteoarthritis patients and the general population. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-081124239 A |
| Classmark | EDD: EA: 49: 3J: 76K |
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