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Variation in risk factors of dementia among four elderly patient cohorts
Baqar Husaini, Van Cain, Meggan Novotny, Zahid Samad, Center For Prevention Research, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN 37209, United States
Robert Levine, Department of Preventive and Family Medicine, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN 37208, United States
Majaz Moonis, Stroke Center, Department of Neurology, University of Massachusetts, Memorial Hospital, Worcester, MA 01655, United States
Author contributions: Husaini B, Levine R and Moonis M wrote the main manuscript text; Cain V and Novotny M prepared Tables and Figure 1; Samad Z was involved with discussion development; all authors reviewed the manuscript.
Supported by Tennessee State University: CDC, No. ED072081100; NCI, No. 5U54CA163066; by a NIH(National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparity to Meharry Medical College), No. P20MD000516
Correspondence to: Baqar Husaini, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Director Emeritus, Center For Preventive Research, Tennessee State University, 3500 John Merritt Blvd, Nashville, TN 37209, United States. bhusaini@tnstate.edu
Telephone: +1-615-2101132 Fax: +1-615-9635068
Received: April 8, 2014
Revised: May 7, 2014
Accepted: June 14, 2014
Published online: June 28, 2014
Revised: May 7, 2014
Accepted: June 14, 2014
Published online: June 28, 2014
Core Tip
Core tip: Large medicaid in-hospital database that examines the differences in prevalence of dementia amongst blacks and white population and by gender. Clear differences emerge; blacks have greater burden of dementia including both genders. Risk factors leading to dementia differed between groups. White males and females had a higher association with stroke, hypertension, heart failure and diabetes while blocks had stroke and diabetes only as risk factors. This difference allows us to target these 2 groups with aggressive management early on to reduce the risk of dementia. The strength lies in analyzing a very large database to derive these conclusions.