Differential Impact of Index Stroke on Dementia Risk in African-Americans Compared to Whites.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare whites and African-Americans in terms of dementia risk following index stroke.

Methods

The data consisted of billing and International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision diagnosis codes from the South Carolina Revenue and Fiscal Affairs office on all hospital discharges within the state between 2000 and 2012. The sample consisted of 68,758 individuals with a diagnosis of ischemic stroke prior to 2010 (49,262 white [71.65%] and 19,496 African-Americans [28.35%]). We identified individuals in the dataset who were subsequently diagnosed with any of 5 categories of dementia and evaluated time to dementia diagnosis in Cox Proportional Hazards models. We plotted cumulative hazard curves to illustrate the effect of race on dementia risk after controllin

SUBMITTER: Clark DG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7282732 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature