Relation between intellectual dysfunctioning and mortality in community-residing older people
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Elderly people with diminished intellectual functioning may be at higher risk of death. Decreased intellectual functioning includes forgetfulness, decreased memory, confusion, and reduced social interaction and sense of meaning in life. Researchers evaluated 1,300 people over 65 years of age, and determined that mortality rates rose as intellectual functioning declined. The strongest association with increased risk of death was severe intellectual dysfunction. Mental dysfunction less severe than dementia may be a risk factor for death in the elderly.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 1998
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Apolipoprotein E phenotypes, dementia and mortality in a prospective population sample
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The apolipoprotein E (apoE) epsilon4 allele appears to increase the risk of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease and other causes and leads to excess 5-year mortality in elderly people. In a study of 550 subjects between the ages of 75 and 85, 27% had the apoE epsilon4 allele. It occurred in 24% of nondemented persons, 51% of those with Alzheimer's disease and 34% of those with vascular dementia. Five-year mortality rates were 48% in those with the allele and 37% in those without it.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 1998
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Fire fatalities in older people
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The problem of fire-related deaths in the elderly is likely to grow more difficult with growth of the percentage of older people in the population based on findings of an Alabama study. The epidemiology of fire-related fatalities in older, middle-aged, and young persons has been studied in Alabama using retrospective case series for the period 1992 and 1997, during which 674 fire-related deaths occurred in the state .
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 1999
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