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| Diabetes and dementia in long-term care | | Author(s) | Pierre N Tariot, M Allison Ogden, Christopher Cox |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 47, no 4, April 1999 |
| Pages | pp 423-429 |
| Keywords | Diabetes ; Dementia ; Long term patients ; Nursing homes ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Chart review was performed on all 476 residents aged 50+ in a nursing home in Rochester, NY. 36 (7.6%) had probable Alzheimer's disease (AD), 49 (10.3%) had possible AD, 38 (8%) had clinically diagnosed vascular dementia, 84 (17.6%) had unspecified dementias, and 269 (56.5%) were not demented. There were 99 residents with adult onset diabetes mellitus (AODM) in the sample, a prevalence rate of about 21%. The rates of both dementia and AODM were as expected for this age group and setting. Those with probable or possible AD had lowest rates of AODM (0 and 6.1% respectively), and those with vascular dementia had the highest rates of AODM (47.7%). Age, sex and race influenced both the risk of having a dementia and the type of dementia. Those with unspecified dementias and no dementia showed rates of AODM (about 20%) that were roughly comparable and intermediate between vascular dementia and AD. In this study, AD diagnosed clinically and AODM does not co-occur, whereas AODM was associated with vascular dementia diagnosed clinically. Conversely, in non-AD, non-vascular dementias diagnosed clinically, the rates of AODM were equivalent to those in non-demented patients. Findings agree with some but not all previous studies. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990825295 A |
| Classmark | CPD: EA: LF7:4Q: LHB: 49: 7T |
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