Age of onset in chronic diseases: New method and application to dementia in Germany

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Brinks, Ralph ^a   Landwehr, Sandra ^a   Waldeyer, Regina ^a,b  

^a LEIBNIZ CENTER FOR DIABETES RESEARCH AT HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; AGING POPULATION; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEALTH INSURANCE; MORTALITY; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MORTALITY; ONSET AGE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITAL STATISTICS;

GERMANY;

EID: 84876844971     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-11-6     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. World health organization and Alzheimer's disease international: dementia: a public health priority http://www.who.int/mental_health/publications/dementia_report_2012/en/.
2. Bruvik FK, Ulstein ID, Ranhoff AH, Engedal K. The quality of life of people with dementia and their family carers. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 2012, 34(1):7-14. 10.1159/000341584, 22854507.
3. Boshuizen HC. Average age at first occurrence as an alternative occurrence parameter in epidemiology. Int J Epidemiol 1997, 26(4):867-872. 10.1093/ije/26.4.867, 9279621.
4. Murray CJL, Lopez AD. Quantifying disability: data, methods and results. Bull WHO 1994, 72(3):481-494. 2486704, 8062403.
5. Murray CJL, Lopez AD. Global and regional descriptive epidemiology of disability: incidence, prevalence, health expectancies and years lived with disability. The Global Burden of Disease 1996, 201-246. Boston: Harvard School of Public Health, Murray CJL, Lopez AD.
6. Brinks R, Landwehr S, Icks A, Koch M, Giani G. Deriving age-specific incidence from prevalence with an ordinary differential equation. Stat Med 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sim.5651.
7. Ziegler U, Doblhammer G. Prävalenz und Inzidenz von Demenz in Deutschland [Prevalence and incidence of dementia in Germany]. Gesundheitswesen 2009, 71(5):281-290. 10.1055/s-0028-1119384, 19288422.
8. Federal Statistical Office of Germany http://www.destatis.de.
9. Rait G, Walters K, Bottomley C, Petersen I, Iliffe S, Nazareth I. Survival of people with clinical diagnosis of dementia in primary care: cohort study. BMJ 2010, 341:c3584. 10.1136/bmj.c3584, 2917003, 20688840.
10. Kamke E. Differentialgleichungen 1983, Stuttgart: Teubner.
11. Dahlquist G, Björck A. Numerical Methods 1974, Eaglewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.
12. Preston SH, Heuveline P, Guillot M. Demography 2001, Malden: Blackwell.
13. Schulz A, Doblhammer G. Aktueller und zukünftiger Krankenbestand von Demenz in Deutschland [Current and future number of patients with dementia in Germany]. Versorgungs-Report 2012 2012, 161-175. Stuttgart: Schattauer, Guenster C, Klose J, Schmacke N.
14. Chen WJ, Faraone SV, Orav EJ, Tsuang MT. Estimating age at onset distributions: the bias from prevalent cases and its impact on risk estimation. Genet Epidemiol 1993, 10(1):43-59. 10.1002/gepi.1370100106, 8472934.
15. Bradford A, Kunik ME, Schulz P, Williams SP, Singh H. Missed and delayed diagnosis of dementia in primary care: prevalence and contributing factors. Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord 2009, 23(4):306-314. 10.1097/WAD.0b013e3181a6bebc, 2787842, 19568149.
16. Connolly A, Gaehl E, Martin H, Morris J, Purandare N. Underdiagnosis of dementia in primary care: variations in the observed prevalence and comparisons to the expected prevalence. Aging Ment Health 2011, 15(8):978-984. 10.1080/13607863.2011.596805, 21777080.