Analysis of mortality among patients with cognitive disorders

Abstract

The structure of mortality among patients with the established diagnosis of dementia was evaluated and analyzed who seek medical help at the Yakut Republican Neuropsychiatric Dispensary for the period from 2019 to 2024. Totally 213 fatal cases were analyzed in patients with the diagnose F00 - F03. The average age of death in men diagnosed with dementia was 76.08 +8.73 years, and among women this indicator was 80.3+8.77 years. When analyzing the immediate cause of death in patients with dementia, cerebral edema was indicated in the first place (16.43%), other specified forms of pulmonary heart failure were diagnosed in the second place on the death certificate (15.96%), and acute respiratory failure was in the third place (15.49%). Among the initial causes of death, the most common cause of death was coronary heart disease (22.06%), pneumonia of various origins (15.9%) was in second place, and diagnoses that were included in the category of brain damage (encephalopathy) were most often in third place, which amounted to 15.03%. Among the initial causes of death among patients with dementia, it is extremely rare to be diagnosed with dementia (6.07%), which strongly affects mortality statistics.