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The influence of multimorbidity on leading causes of death in older adults with cognitive impairment.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship of leading causes of death with gradients of cognitive impairment and multimorbidity. The authors found that multimorbidity was common in the study population. Heart disease was the leading cause in all groups, but with a larger percentage of deaths in the mild and moderate/severe cognitively impaired groups than among the noncognitively impaired. The different "paths" down the regression trees showed that the distribution of causes of death changed with different combinations of multimorbidity.
AHRQ-funded; HS023113.
Citation: Schiltz NK, Warner DF, Sun J .
The influence of multimorbidity on leading causes of death in older adults with cognitive impairment.
J Aging Health 2019 Jul;31(6):1025-42. doi: 10.1177/0898264317751946..
Keywords: Elderly, Dementia, Neurological Disorders, Chronic Conditions, Mortality