Table 2.
Sample of patients with dementia subdivided according to dementia-relevant co-morbidities
| Dementia | Patients | Co-morbidities 1 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyper-tension | Depression | Heart failure | Chronic ischaemic heart disease |
Diabetes mellitus | Dys-lipidemia | Cardiac arrhythmias | Athero-sclerosis | Stroke or cerebral infarction |
Other cerebrovascular diseases 2 |
Pressure ulcer | ||
| N | [n (%)] | [n (%)] | [n (%)] | [n (%)] | [n (%)] | [n (%)] | [n (%)] | [n (%)] | [n (%)] | [n (%)] | [n (%)] | |
| Dementia in Alzheimer's disease | 60 | 24 (40.0) | 20 (33.3) | 21 (35.0) | 15 (25.0) | 9 (15.0) | 16 (26.7) | 11 (18.3) | 12 (20.0) | 8 (13.3) | 11 (18.3) | 9 (15.0) |
| Vascular dementia | 145 | 66 (45.5) | 40 (27.6) | 23 (15.9) | 38 (26.2) | 30 (20.4) | 28 (19.3) | 25 (17.2) | 34 (23.4) | 29 (20.0) | 22 (15.2) | 6 (4.1) |
| Dementia in Parkinson's disease | 42 | 14 (33.3) | 17 (40.5) | 13 (31.0) | 4 (9.5) | 8 (19.0) | 5 (11.9) | 6 (14.3) | 6 (14.3) | 11 (26.2) | 7 (16.7) | 8 (19.0) |
| Unspecified dementia | 330 | 144 (43.6) | 80 (24.2) | 96 (29.1) | 56 (17.0) | 56 (17.0) | 49 (14.8) | 52 (15.8) | 36 (10.9) | 39 (11.8) | 35 (10.6) | 30 (9.1) |
| Total | 577 | 248 (43.0) | 157 (27.2) | 153 (26.5) | 113 (19.6) | 103 (17.9) | 98 (17.0) | 94 (16.3) | 88 (15.3) | 87 (15.1) | 75 (13.0) | 53 (9.2) |
1 Double entries possible, sorted by descending frequency; 2 including cerebral aneurysm (nonruptured, cerebral atherosclerosis, hypertensive encephalopathy, nonpyogenic thrombosis of intracranial venous system, and cerebral arteritis, not elsewhere classified