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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2021 Oct 13;70(1):299–301. doi: 10.1111/jgs.17498

Table.

Demographic characteristics of 3,539,244 Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 and older by whether they had Alzheimer’s Diagnosis and previous sleep disorder.

No Alzheimer’s Diagnosis Alzheimer’s Diagnosis
No sleep disorder Sleep disorder No sleep disorder Sleep disorder
N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%)
N 1,230,304 (69.52) 539,318 (30.48) 847,031 (47.87) 922,591 (52.13)
Age
 Median (IQR) 84 (78,89) 84 (78,87) 84 (78, 89) 84 (78, 89)
 65-74 183,217 (14.89) 75,760 (14.05) 120,904 (14.27) 138,073 (14.97)
 75-84 503,073 (40.89) 228,107 (42.30) 344,618 (40.69) 386,562 (41.90)
 85 or older 544,014 (44.22) 235,451 (43.66) 381,509 (45.04) 397,956 (43.13)
Sex
 Female 790,338 (64.24) 351,959 (65.26) 553,059 (65.29) 589,238 (63.87)
 Male 439,966 (35.76) 187,359 (34.74) 293,972 (34.71) 333,353 (36.13)
Race
 Asian 24,894 (2.02) 8,213 (1.52) 15,489 (1.83) 17,618 (1.91)
 Black 122,095 (9.92) 38,664 (7.17) 86,326 (10.19) 74,433 (8.07)
 Hispanic 33,330 (2.71) 8,082 (1.50) 20,388 (2.41) 21,024 (2.28)
 Other/Unknown 3,737 (0.30) 2,180 (0.40) 2,612 (0.31) 3,305 (0.36)
 White 1,046,248 (85.04) 482,179 (89.41) 722,216 (85.26) 806,211 (87.39)
Metropolitan
 Rural 227,150 (18.46) 103,716 (19.23) 151,786 (17.92) 179,080 (19.41)
 Urban 1,003,154 (81.54) 435,602 (80.77) 695,245 (82.08) 743,511 (80.59)
Region
 Midwest 288,392 (23.44) 128,752 (23.87) 204,613 (24.16) 212,531 (23.04)
 Northeast 233,223 (18.96) 102,381 (18.98) 171,480 (20.24) 164,124 (17.79)
 Other 5,404 (0.44) 2,088 (0.39) 5,305 (0.63) 2,187 (0.24)
 South 514,490 (41.82) 224,698 (41.66) 336,445 (39.72) 402,743 (43.65)
 West 188,795 (15.35) 81,399 (15.09) 129,188 (15.25) 141,006 (15.28)