Table 1.
Characteristics of patients with dementia disaggregated by psychoactive treatment type
| Type of treatment | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type of treatment | Without treatment | Antidepressants | Antipsychotics | Antidepressants + Antipsychotics | Total | |
| 10,026 (33.6%) | 10,148 (34.0%) | 3,279 (11.0%) | 6,411 (21.5%) | 29,864 (100.0%) | ||
| Female Gender | * | 6,528 (65.1%) | 7,452 (73.4%) | 2,125 (64.8%) | 4,612 (71.9%) | 20,717 (69.4%) |
| Nursing Home | * | 1,988 (19.8%) | 2,722 (26.8%) | 1,041 (31.7%) | 2,495 (38.9%) | 8,246 (27.6%) |
| Arterial hypertension | * | 1,394 (13.9%) | 1,877 (18.5%) | 498 (15.2%) | 974 (15.2%) | 4,743 (15.9%) |
| Diabetes | * | 2,247 (22.4%) | 2,622 (25.8%) | 803 (24.5%) | 1,461 (22.8%) | 7,133 (23.9%) |
| Dyslipidemia | * | 1,491 (14.9%) | 1,861 (18.3%) | 588 (17.9%) | 1,219 (19.0%) | 5,159 (17.3%) |
| Thyroid disease | * | 1,252 (12.5%) | 1,805 (17.8%) | 475 (14.5%) | 1,100 (17.2%) | 4,632 (15.5%) |
| Parkinson’s disease | * | 369 (3.7%) | 375 (3.7%) | 232 (7.1%) | 286 (4.5%) | 1,262 (4.2%) |
| Stroke | * | 1,650 (16.5%) | 2,118 (20.9%) | 639 (19.5%) | 1,158 (18.1%) | 5,565 (18.6%) |
| Cardiovascular disease | * | 927 (9.2%) | 1,085 (10.7%) | 332 (10.1%) | 624 (9.7%) | 2,968 (9.9%) |
| Traumatic brain injury | * | 1,002 (10.0%) | 1,520 (15.0%) | 465 (14.2%) | 1,084 (16.9%) | 4,071 (13.6%) |
| Depressive disorder | * | 395 (3.9%) | 1,478 (14.6%) | 242 (7.4%) | 896 (14.0%) | 3,011 (10.0%) |
| Neuropsychiatric symptoms | * | 867 (8.6%) | 1,377 (13.6%) | 400 (12.2%) | 1,119 (17.5%) | 3,763 (12.6%) |
| Deprivation index | * | |||||
| Quintile 1 | 1,945 (19.4%) | 2,033 (20.0%) | 656 (20.0%) | 1,389 (21.7%) | 6,023 (20.2%) | |
| Quintile 2 | 1,981 (19.8%) | 2,100 (20.7%) | 608 (18.5%) | 1,315 (20.5%) | 6,004 (20.1%) | |
| Quintile 3 | 2,036 (20.3%) | 2,087 (20.6%) | 642 (19.6%) | 1,154 (18.0%) | 5,919 (19.8%) | |
| Quintile 4 | 2,070 (20.6%) | 1,979 (19.5%) | 691 (21.1%) | 1,325 (20.7%) | 6,065 (20.3%) | |
| Quintile 5 | 1,994 (19.9%) | 1,949 (19.2.0%) | 682 (20.8%) | 1,228 (19.2%) | 5,853 (19.6%) | |
| Age mean (SD) | 84.18 (9.59) | 83.96 (8.10) | 83.54 (6.62) | 83.48 (6.65) | 83.88 (8.22) | |
Notes: Quintile 1: least deprived; Quintile 5: most deprived. *Existence of statistically significant differences at α=0.05.
Abbreviation: SD, standard deviation.