Table 3 Underlying and Direct Causes of Death among Men and Women
From: Causes of death in a nationwide cohort of community-dwellers with Alzheimer’s disease
Category | Men N = 10,934 | Women N = 19,707 | P for sex difference | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No AD n = 3654 | AD n = 7280 | No AD n = 6517 | AD n = 13,190 | ||
Diseases of the circulatory system | 1842 (50.4) | 2202 (30.2) | 3599 (55.2) | 4282 (32.5) | 0.078 |
Diseases of the nervous system | 123 (3.4) | 3541 (48.6) | 317 (4.9) | 6677 (50.6) | 0.006 |
Neoplasms | 830 (22.7) | 667 (9.2) | 1112 (17.1) | 906 (6.9) | 0.56 |
Mental and behavioral disorders | 191 (5.2) | 152 (2.1) | 550 (8.4) | 273 (2.1) | < 0.001 |
Diseases of the respiratory system | 280 (7.7) | 228 (3.1) | 232 (3.6) | 152 (1.2) | 0.13 |
External causes of morbidity and mortality | 141 (3.9) | 197 (2.7) | 215 (3.3) | 321 (2.4) | 0.71 |
Diseases of the digestive system | 101 (2.8) | 136 (1.9) | 207 (3.2) | 287 (2.2) | 0.94 |
Certain infectious and parasitic diseases | 30 (0.8) | 37 (0.5) | 59 (0.9) | 59 (0.4) | 0.46 |
Diseases of the genitourinary system | 46 (1.3) | 45 (0.6) | 86 (1.3) | 111 (0.8) | 0.31 |
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases | 41 (1.1) | 44 (0.6) | 74 (1.1) | 72 (0.5) | 0.67 |
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue | 12 (0.3) | 4 (0.1) | 37 (0.6) | 17 (0.1) | 0.64 |
Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism | 3 (0.1) | 5 (0.1) | 7 (0.1) | 6 (< 0.1) | 0.46 |
Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified | 6 (0.2) | 7 (0.1) | 4 (0.1) | 10 (0.1) | 0.36 |
Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities | 1 (< 0.1) | 5 (0.1) | 7 (0.1) | 8 (0.1) | 0.22 |
Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue | 4 (0.1) | 2 (< 0.1) | 5 (0.1) | 2 (< 0.1) | 0.84 |
Diseases of the eye, adnexa, ear and mastoid process | 1 (< 0.1) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (< 0.1) | 0 (0.0) | N.A |