Cardiovascular medication burden in dementia disorders: a nationwide study of 19,743 dementia patients in the Swedish Dementia Registry

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00159816%3A_____%2F14%3A00061083" target="_blank" >RIV/00159816:_____/14:00061083 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/alzrt264" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/alzrt264</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/alzrt264" target="_blank" >10.1186/alzrt264</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Cardiovascular medication burden in dementia disorders: a nationwide study of 19,743 dementia patients in the Swedish Dementia Registry

Original language description

Introduction: Administration of several cardiovascular drugs has an effect on dementia. We aimed to investigate whether there are differences in the use of cardiovascular medication between different dementia disorders. Methods: We obtained information about dementia patients from the Swedish Dementia Registry. Patients were diagnosed with one of these dementia disorders: Alzheimer's disease (n = 8,139), mixed dementia (n = 5,203), vascular dementia (n = 4,982), Lewy body dementia (n = 605), frontotemporal dementia (n = 409) and Parkinson's disease dementia (n = 405). Multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed to investigate the association between use of cardiovascular medication and dementia disorders, after adjustment for age, gender, living alone, cognitive status and total number of drugs (a proxy for overall co-morbidity). Results: Seventy percent of all the dementia patients used cardiovascular medication. Use of cardiovascular drugs is common in patients with vascu

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

FH - Neurology, neuro-surgery, nuero-sciences

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/ED1.100%2F02%2F0123" target="_blank" >ED1.100/02/0123: St. Anne´s University Hospital Brno - International Clinical Research Center (FNUSA-ICRC)</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Alzheimers Research & Therapy

ISSN

1758-9193

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

34

UT code for WoS article

000343200100011

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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