Mortality in dementia with Lewy bodies compared with Alzheimer's dementia: a retrospective naturalistic cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To use routine clinical data to investigate survival in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) compared with Alzheimer's dementia (AD). DLB is the second most common dementia subtype after AD, accounting for around 7% of dementia diagnoses in secondary care, though studies suggest that it is underdiagnosed by up to 50%. Most previous studies of DLB have been based on select research cohorts, so little is known about the outcome of the disease in routine healthcare settings.

Setting

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, a mental health trust providing secondary mental health care in England.

Sample

251 DLB and 222 AD identified from an anonymised database derived from electronic clinical case records across an 8-year period (2005-2012), with mortality

SUBMITTER: Price A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5695389 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature