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Survival of people with clinical diagnosis of dementia in primary care
— cohort study | | Author(s) | Greta Rait, Kate Walters, Christian Bottomley |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 341, no 7768, 14 August 2010 |
| Pages | p 337 |
| Source | www.bmj.com BMJ2010;341:c3584 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Life span ; Diagnosis ; General practice ; Longitudinal surveys. |
| Annotation | Family doctors provide most medical care for people with dementia, but no survival estimates relevant to primary care are available. In this. summary of a UK study published on bmj.com, the authors identified a cohort of 22,529 people aged 60+ with recorded diagnoses of dementia from January 1990 to August 2007 and a random sample of 112,645 people without dementia. Having collected information on a range of medical conditions, they estimated survival as a function of time since diagnosis, and compared mortality rates of people with and without dementia. Median survival for those aged 60-69 at time of diagnosis was 6.7 years, falling to 1.9 years for those aged 90+. The 5-year survival ranged from just over 50% in 60-69 year olds to 25% in 80-89 years olds. Mortality rates are three times higher in the first year after the initial recorded diagnosis compared with those without dementia. (RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-100825202 A |
| Classmark | EA: BG6: LK7: L5: 3J * |
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