In 2017, age-adjusted death rates for dementia were higher among non-Hispanic white persons compared with non-Hispanic black and Hispanic persons (70.8 per 100,000 compared with 65.0 and 46.0, respectively). Also, among women, the rates were highest among non-Hispanic white women (77.6) compared with non-Hispanic black women (67.4) and Hispanic women (49.8). The age-adjusted death rate for non-Hispanic white men was not statistically different from the rate for non-Hispanic black men (59.4 compared with 58.8). Age-adjusted death rates were higher for women than men among non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, and Hispanic populations.
Sources: National Vital Statistics System. Underlying cause of death, 2017. https://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10.html.
Kramarow EA, Tejada-Vera B. Dementia mortality in the United States: 2000–2017. National Vital Statistics Reports, volume 68, number 2. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_02-508.pdf.
Footnotes
Age-adjusted death rates are per 100,000 population and are based on the 2000 U.S. standard population.
Dementia deaths are identified according to the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision underlying cause-of-death codes: F03 (unspecified dementia), G30 (Alzheimer’s disease), F01 (vascular dementia), and G31 (other degenerative diseases of nervous system).