| Literature DB >> 7793228 |
P K Mölsä1, R J Marttila, U K Rinne.
Abstract
Long-term survival was examined for 218 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 115 patients with multi-infarct dementia (MID). The 14-year survival rate for AD was 2.4% versus an expected rate of 16.6%, and for MID 1.7% versus 13.3% expected. MID showed a more malignant natural course than AD. Men carried a less favourable survival prognosis than women, both in AD and MID: the relative risk of dying for women was half that for men in both diseases. In MID, advanced disability indicated a relative risk of dying over twice as high. In both diseases the risk of death was substantially higher in the event of occurrence of primitive reflexes.Entities:
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Year: 1995 PMID: 7793228 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1995.tb00426.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Acta Neurol Scand ISSN: 0001-6314 Impact factor: 3.209