Table 3.
Correlation between patients/100,000/municipality and sociodemographic-, patient- and medical-related variables.
| Spearman’s rho (P value) * | |
|---|---|
| HDI | 0.32 (< .0001) |
| GDP per capita | 0.21 (< 0.001) |
| Income per capita | 0.28 (< 0.0001) |
| % Rural domicile | ns |
| Education | |
| % Illiteracy | −0.16 (< 0.001) |
| % Elementary | 0.19 (< 0.0001) |
| % High school | 0.19 (< 0.0001) |
| % University | 0.17 (< 0.001) |
| % Female | ns |
| Patients' age | ns |
| % age ≥ 65 years | ns |
| MMSE | ns |
| Deaths from AD/100,000 inhabitants | ns |
| Physicians/100,000 inhabitants | 0.17 (< 0.001) |
| Experience as a physician (in years) | ns |
*P value threshold after Bonferroni correction (< .002), ns not significant, AD Alzheimer's disease, GDP Gross domestic product, HDI Human development index, MMSE Mini mental state examination.