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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Neurol. 2013 Oct 15;21(2):253–2e9. doi: 10.1111/ene.12278

Table 3.

Primary cause of death (The International Classification of Diseases, 9th) by diagnostic groups at 5 years

Cognitively
unimpaired
N (%)		 Non-amnestic
MCI
N (%)		 Amnestic-single
domain MCI
N (%)		 Amnestic-multiple
domain MCI
N (%)
Dementia 2 (0.8%) 1 (1.2%) 0 (0.0%) 1 (2.4%)
Cerebrovascular disorders 18 (7.0%) 5 (6.0%) 3 (7.3%) 1 (2.4%)
Cardiovascular diseases 65 (25.3%) 20 (23.8%) 11 (26.8%) 10 (24.4%)
Respiratory diseases 32 (12.5%) 12 (14.3%) 6 (14.6%) 10 (24.4%)
Cancer 98 (38.1%) 31 (36.9%) 14 (34.1%) 10 (24.4%)
Other causes 42 (16.3%) 15 (17.9%) 7 (17.1%) 9 (22.0%)
Total 257 (100%)* 84 (100%) 41 (100%) 41 (100%)
*

Cause-specific mortality was missed in 4 cognitively unimpaired subjects