{"id":1371,"date":"2013-03-19T17:42:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T20:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2013-03-19T17:42:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T20:42:39","slug":"mortality-from-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2013\/03\/19\/1371\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortality from Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, the most common form of dementia among older adults, affects parts of the brain that control thinking, remembering and making decisions. It can seriously impair a person&#8217;s ability to complete daily activities. \u00a0An estimated 5.4 million people in the U.S. have Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, at a cost of $200 billion\u00a0in health care expenses in 2012, including $140 billion\u00a0in costs to Medicare and Medicaid. Health care costs related to the condition are expected to rise to 1.1 trillion dollars in 2050.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/elderly-woman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1406\" alt=\"Elderly woman teaching her grandson how to peel a sweet potato.\" src=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/elderly-woman.jpg?w=200\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a new NCHS <a title=\"Alzheimer's disease mortality 2000-2010\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db116.pdf\">report<\/a>, in 2010 Alzheimer&#8217;s disease was the sixth leading cause of death for all Americans, accounting for a total of 83,494 deaths and contributing to the death of 26,488 additional Americans. \u00a0Mortality from the disease has also steadily increased during the last 30 years. \u00a0The report also found that women had a 30 percent higher risk of dying from the disease than men.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key findings from the report<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The age-adjusted death rate from Alzheimer\u2019s disease increased by 39 percent from 2000 through 2010 in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Alzheimer\u2019s disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States and is the fifth leading cause among people aged 65 years and over. People aged 85 years and over have a 5.4 times greater risk of dying from Alzheimer\u2019s disease than people aged 75\u201384 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The risk of dying from Alzheimer\u2019s disease is 26 percent higher among the non-Hispanic white population than among the non-Hispanic black population, whereas the Hispanic population has a 30 percent lower risk than the non-Hispanic white population.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In 2010, among all states and the District of Columbia, 31 states showed death rates from Alzheimer\u2019s disease that were above the national rate (25.1).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db116_fig1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Percent change in age-adjusted death rates for selected causes of death: United States, 2000 and 2010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db116_fig1.png\" width=\"461\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, the most common form of dementia among older adults, affects parts of the brain that control thinking, remembering and making decisions. It can seriously impair a person&#8217;s ability to complete daily activities. \u00a0An estimated 5.4 million people in the U.S. have Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, at a cost of $200 billion\u00a0in health care expenses in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}