Ewbank D C
Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA.
Am J Public Health. 1999 Jan;89(1):90-2. doi: 10.2105/ajph.89.1.90.
This study provided 2 estimates of the number of deaths attributable to Alzheimer's disease in the United States.
One estimate was based on data from the East Boston, Mass, study. The second was based on a simulation using population-based estimates of prevalence and separate estimates of excess death by duration of disease.
Despite different methods and very different estimates of prevalence, these 2 methods led to very similar estimates of 173,000 and 163,000 excess deaths.
These estimates suggest that 7.1% of all deaths in the United States in 1995 are attributable to Alzheimer's disease, placing it on a par with cerebrovascular diseases as the third leading cause of death.
本研究对美国因阿尔茨海默病导致的死亡人数进行了两种估算。
一种估算是基于马萨诸塞州东波士顿的研究数据。另一种是基于一项模拟，该模拟使用了基于人群的患病率估算以及按疾病持续时间分别估算的超额死亡人数。
尽管方法不同且患病率估算差异很大，但这两种方法得出的超额死亡人数估算非常相似，分别为173,000人和163,000人。
这些估算表明，1995年美国所有死亡人数中有7.1%可归因于阿尔茨海默病，使其与脑血管疾病并列成为第三大死亡原因。
