Medical Comorbidity in Alzheimer's Disease: A Nested Case-Control Study

• Published in: Journal of Alzheimer's disease Vol. 63; no. 2; p. 773
• Main Authors: Wang, Jen-Hung, Wu, Ya-Ju, Tee, Boon Lead, Lo, Raymond Y
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands 01.01.2018
• Subjects: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Alzheimer Disease - epidemiology; Case-Control Studies; Comorbidity; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Retrospective Studies; nested case-control studies; dementia; cholinesterase inhibitors; comorbidity; Alzheimer’s disease

Little is known about the distribution of medical comorbidities in Alzheimer's disease (AD). We aimed to describe the comorbidity pattern of AD in a nested case-control study. Incident AD cases were identified by International Classification of Diseases codes in a random sample of 2 million ind...