Large household reduces dementia mortality: A cross-sectional data analysis of 183 populations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Large households/families may create more happiness and offer more comprehensive healthcare among the members. We correlated household size to dementia mortality rate at population level for analysing its protecting role against dementia mortality.

Methods

This is a retrospective cross-sectional study. Dementia specific mortality rates of the 183 member states of World Health Organization were calculated and matched with the respective country data on household size, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), urban population and ageing. Scatter plots were produced to explore and visualize the correlations between household size and dementia mortality rates. Pearson's and nonparametric correlations were used to evaluate the strength and direction of the associations between ho

SUBMITTER: You W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8893634 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature