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Age, sex, and functional impairment predicted risk of mortality in incident dementia at 14 years
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C Brayne
Dr C Brayne, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; carol.brayne@medschl.cam.ac.uk
STUDY QUESTION
In patients with incident dementia, what is the association between various prognostic factors and risk of mortality?
STUDY DESIGN
prospective cohort study followed for 14 years.
2 rural and 3 urban centres in England and Wales, UK.
inception cohort of 438 patients >65 years of age (median age 84 y) who were diagnosed with dementia based on a geriatric mental state examination algorithm. People who had prevalent dementia during entry into the cohort or whose onset of dementia could not be estimated were excluded.
age at onset of dementia, sex, marital status, accommodation type (community or institution), education level (
9 y, 10–11 y, or 
12 y), social class (professional, managerial and technical, skilled non-manual and manual, partly skilled, or unskilled manual), functional status (least, middle, or most impairment on the Blessed Dementia Scale), score on the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)
St. Peter's Centre for Studies on Aging Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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