Survival in dementia and predictors of mortality: a review
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...Two reviews (23,27) reported data on all-cause mortality relevant to older adults....
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...Lack of, and error in the measurement of covariates may lead to inadequate adjustment, as can differences in the coding and treatment between hospitals and other health care settings (23)....
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...The reviews on dysthymia and depression in the elderly (27) and dementia (23) also used community and outpatient clinic data only....
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...After exclusions, a final sample of 20 systematic reviews and meta-analyses (1,6,14-31) were included (Figure 1, Table 1)....
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...Increased cognitive impairment, as measured by a lower score on the Mini-Mental State Examination (Folstein et al., 1975), was associated with increased risk of mortality in one study (Larson et al., 2004) but not several others (Heyman et al., 1996; AgueroTorres et al., 1999; Ganguli et al., 2005;…...
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...Increased cognitive impairment, as measured by a lower score on the Mini-Mental State Examination (Folstein et al., 1975), was associated with increased risk of mortality in one study (Larson et al., 2004) but not several others (Heyman et al., 1996; AgueroTorres et al., 1999; Ganguli et al., 2005; Xie et al., 2008)....
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...Worse performance on the Dementia Rating Scale and the Barthel scale (Mahoney and Barthel, 1965) and increased number of disabilities in instrumental activities of daily living were associated with increased risk of mortality (Freels et al., 2002; Ganguli et al., 2005; Xie et al., 2008)....
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...Increased global impairment on two alternative instruments, CAMDEX (Roth et al., 1986) and Dementia Rating Scale (Blessed et al., 1968), was also associated with significantly increased risk of mortality in one study each, respectively (Schaufele et al., 1999; Larson et al., 2004)....
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...Increasingly, cardiovascular risk factors in mid-life, such as hypertension and hypercholesterolemia, are recognised as risk factors for the development of dementia in late-life (Sparks et al., 2003; Qiu et al., 2005; Launer et al., 2010; Barnes and Yaffe, 2011; Daviglus et al., 2011)....
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