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. 2021 Jul;36(7):2167-2169.
doi: 10.1007/s11606-020-05895-y. Epub 2020 Jun 3.

Age and Incidence of Dementia Diagnosis

Mark Olfson  1 , Thomas Scott Stroup  2 , Cecilia Huang  3 , Melanie M Wall  2 , Tobias Gerhard  3   4
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Age and Incidence of Dementia Diagnosis

Mark Olfson et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2021 Jul.
No abstract available

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Age-specific incidence rates of dementia diagnoses per 1000 person-years for males and females. Data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Incident dementia diagnoses per 1000 person-years with 95% confidence intervals were for males aged 66 (8.3, 8.1–8.4), 80 (33.7, 33.4–34.1), 90 (87.7, 86.5–89.4), and 100 (142.4, 132.7–152.1) years and for females aged 66 (7.2, 7.1–7.2), 80 (35.6, 35.3–35.9), 90 (95.7, 94.9–96.4) and 100 (162.7, 158.5–167.0) years.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Age-specific incidence rates of dementia diagnoses per 1000 person-years for four racial/ethnic groups. Data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Incident dementia diagnoses per 1000 person years with 95% confidence intervals were for non-Hispanic whites aged 66 (6.7, 6.6–6.7), 80 (33.5, 33.3–33.8), 90 (92.2, 91.5–92.9), and 100 (156.5, 152.3–160.7) years; for non-Hispanic blacks aged 66 (16.3,16.0–16.7), 80 (53.4, 52.3–54.6), 90 (116.0, 112.9–119.1), and 100 (180.7, 166.1–195.3) years; for Hispanics aged 66 (11.1, 10.7–11.5), 80 (41.5, 40.5–42.5), 90 (105.4, 102.1–108.6), and 100 (191.6, 168.9–214.4) years; and for Asian/Pacific Islanders aged 66 (6.0, 5.5–6.4), 80 (29.3, 28.3–30.4), 90 (82.8, 79.5–86.2), and 100 (142.1, 118.3–166.0) years.
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