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Table 2 Prevalence of concomitant diseases and medications

From: Cerebral inflammation is an underlying mechanism of early death in Alzheimer’s disease: a 13-year cause-specific multivariate mortality study

Disease category

Prevalence (%)

Folate or vitamin B12 deficiency

41

All other diseases

39

Hypertension

32

Gastrointestinal diseases

30

Heart disease

26

Hypotension

18

Thyroid diseases

17

Hypercholesterolemia

13

Pulmonary diseases

11

Major depression or anxiety disorders

9

Diabetes

8

Liver or kidney diseases

5

Medications

 

Antidepressants

43

Cardiovascular drugs

34

Platelet-aggregation inhibitors

32

Antipsychotics/sedatives

31

Analgesics (except aspirin and NSAIDs)

13

Thyroxine

12

Serum lipid-reducing agents

12

Antacids

9

Estrogen therapy

7

NSAIDs

2

  1. NSAIDs, nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs.