Survival following a diagnosis of Alzheimer disease

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1764-1767

  Brookmeyer, Ron ^a,b,c,d   Corrada, Maria M ^a,b,c,d   Curriero, Frank C ^a,b,c,d   Kawas, Claudia ^a,b,c,d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Baltimore MD ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0036847626     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.59.11.1764     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Wolfson C, Wolfson DB, Asgharian M, et al. A reevaluation of the duration of survival after the onset of dementia. N Engl J Med. 2001;344:1111-1116.
2. Helmer C, Joly P, Letenneur L, Commenges D, Dartigues JF. Mortality with dementia: Results from a French prospective community-based cohort. Am J Epidemiol. 2001;154:642-648.
3. Agüero-Torres H, Fratiglioni L, Guo Z, Viitanen M, Winblad W. Mortality from dementia in advanced age: A 5-year follow-up study of incident dementia cases. J Clin Epidemiol. 1999;52:737-743.
4. Bowen JD, Malter AD, Sheppard L, et al. Predictors of mortality in patients with diagnosed probable Alzheimer's disease. Neurology. 1996;47:433-439.
5. Aronson MK, Ooi WL, Geva DL, Masur D, Blau A, Frishman W. Dementia: Age-dependent incidence, prevalence, and mortality in the old old. Arch Intern Med. 1991;151:989-992.
6. Evans DA, Smith LA, Scherr PA, Albert MS, Funkenstein H, Albert LE. Risk of death from Alzheimer's disease in a community population of older persons. Am J Epidemiol. 1999;134:403-412.
7. Walsh JS, Welch HG, Larson EB. Survival of outpatients with Alzheimer-type dementia. Ann Intern Med. 1990;113:429-434.
8. Shock N, Greulich R, Andres R, et al. Normal Human Aging: The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. Washington, DC: National Institutes of Health; 1984. NIH publication 84-2450.
9. Kawas C, Gray S, Brookmeyer R, Fozard J, Zonderman A. Age-specific incidence rates of Alzheimer's disease: The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. Neurology. 2000;54:2072-2077.
10. Blessed G, Tomilinson BE, Roth M. The association between quantitative measures of dementia and of senile change in the cerebral gray matter of elderly subjects. Br J Psychiatry. 1968;114:797-811.
11. Reliability of the blessed telephone information-memory-concentration test. J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 1995;8:238-242.
12. Kawas C, Segal J, Stewart WF, Corrada M, Thal LJ. A validation study of the Dementia Questionnaire. Arch Neurol 1994;51:901-906.
13. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition. Washington, DC:American Psychiatric Association; 1980.
14. McKhann G, Drachman D, Folstein M, Katzman R, Price D, Stadlan E. Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: Report of the NINCDS-ADRDA Work Group under the auspices of Department of Health and Human Services Task Force on Alzheimer's Disease. Neurology. 1984;34:939-944.
15. Klein JP, Moeschberger ML. Survival Analysis: Techniques for Censored and Truncated Data. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag; 1997.
16. United States Life Tables, 1998. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/Lt98internet.pdf. Accessed August 1, 2001.
17. Brookmeyer R, Gray S, Kawas C. Projections of Alzheimer's disease in the United States and the public health impact of delaying disease onset. Am J Public Health. 1998;88:1337-1342.
18. Kawas CH Brookmeyer R. Aging and the public health effects of dementia. N Engl J Med. 2001;344:1160-1161.