From: Causes of death in a nationwide cohort of community-dwellers with Alzheimer’s disease
Category | ICD-10 code | No AD, n = 10,171 | AD, n = 20,470 | OR (95%CI |
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Diseases of the circulatory system | I* | 5441 (53.5) | 6484 (31.7) | 0.40 (0.38, 0.42) |
Diseases of the nervous system | G* | 440 (4.3) | 10,218 (50.0) | 22.06 (19.87, 24.25) |
Neoplasms | C*, D00-D48 | 1942 (19.1) | 1573 (7.7) | 0.35 (0.33, 0.38) |
Mental and behavioral disorders | F* | 741 (7.3) | 425 (2.1) | 0.27 (0.24, 0.30) |
Diseases of the respiratory system | J* | 512 (5.0) | 380 (1.9) | 0.36 (0.31, 0.40) |
External causes of morbidity and mortality | V*, W*, X*, Y* | 356 (3.5) | 518 (2.5) | 0.72 (0.62, 0.81) |
Diseases of the digestive system | K* | 308 (3.0) | 423 (2.1) | 0.68 (0.58, 0.78) |
Certain infectious and parasitic diseases | A*, B* | 89 (0.9) | 96 (0.5) | 0.53 (0.40, 0.71) |
Diseases of the genitourinary system | N* | 132 (1.3) | 156 (0.8) | 0.58 (0.46, 0.74) |
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases | E* | 115 (1.1) | 116 (0.6) | 0.50 (0.38, 0.65) |
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue | M* | 49 (0.5) | 21 (0.1) | 0.21 (0.13, 0.35) |
Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism | D50-D89 | 10 (0.1) | 11 (0.1) | 0.55 (0.23, 1.29) |
Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified | R* | 10 (0.1) | 17 (0.1) | 0.84 (0.39, 1.85) |
Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities | Q* | 8 (0.1) | 13 (0.1) | 0.81 (0.33, 1.95) |
Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue | L* | 9 (0.1) | 4 (< 0.1) | 0.22 (0.07, 0.72) |
Diseases of the eye, adnexa, ear and mastoid process | H* | 2 < (0.1) | 0 (0.0) | N.A |