It is well known that dementia is associated with increased mortality. New scientific studies show that more and more deaths with dementia have been recorded as the leading cause of death in recent years. The rise in dementia-related deaths may be linked to increased awareness of dementia as a fatal disease, Pannochka, an online publication for girls and women aged 14 to 35, reports.. net Over the past 20 years, an increasing number of deaths have been reported with dementia as the leading cause of death. This is the main finding of a new study published in the journal Alzheimer's Disease by the Danish Dementia Research Center (DDRC), which examined how the causes of death have changed over time in people with diagnosed dementia compared with the elderly population in general..

" This calls for more attention to the fact that dementia is inherently life-threatening, says DDRC professor Gunhild Waldemar..

She adds that despite the increase in registrations, dementia is probably still not reported as a cause of death in people with dementia disorder..

New population-based study is the first study of temporal trends in causes of death in people diagnosed with dementia. Data were based on data from the national register of the entire Danish population aged 65 and over who died in 2002-2015.

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