Table 1.

Demographic and clinical data for patients studied.

Case	Age	Sex	Race	Clinical characteristics
				Medical history	Neurologic diagnoses
1	90	M	C	HTN, hypercholesterolemia, sick sinus syndrome status post pacemaker, multiple decubitus ulcers	Vascular dementia with multiple infarcts
2	93	F	C	HTN, tumor on chest of unknown etiology, osteoporosis	Alzheimer dementia with Parkinsonian features, minor depression, anxiety
3	75	M	C	Arrhythmia, hypothyroidism, recurrent pancreatitis	Alzheimer dementia, herpes zoster involving cranial nerves
4	79	M	C	HTN, Stanford type B aortic dissection/aneurysm, hernia	None
5	82	M	AA	Unknown other than history of cocaine use	Intracerebral hemorrhage
6	87	F	C	HTN, atrial fibrillation, lung cancer status post right lobectomy, COPD, CKD, hypothyroidism, osteoarthritis	Alzheimer dementia, multiple small infarcts, intermittent cranial nerve VI palsy
7	80	M	C	GERD, osteoarthritis	Dementia with Lewy bodies, small infarct, history of head injury, adult attention deficit disorder
8	89	M	C	Benign prostatic hyperplasia	Alzheimer dementia
9	61	M	H	HTN, CAD with stent thrombosis, DM2 with peripheral arterial disease, ESRD	None
10	78	M	C	HTN	Alzheimer dementia
11	84	F	C	HTN, hypothyroidism	Alzheimer dementia
12	73	M	H	HTN, hypercholesterolemia, CAD with myocardial infarction, COPD	Parkinson disease, vascular dementia with multiple strokes

M male, F female, C Caucasian, AA African American, H Hispanic, HTN hypertension, CAD coronary artery disease, CKD chronic kidney disease, DM2 type 2 diabetes mellitus, ESRD end-stage renal disease, COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.