Sex Differences in Mortality and Health Care Utilization After Dementia Diagnosis
In this study, male patients with dementia had higher mortality rates and higher use of many health care services, especially hospital stays, than comparable female patients. Strategies to slow mortality and decrease health care use among male patients with dementia may be particularly impactful in limiting the burden of dementia. Given higher incidence of dementia among women, a focus on efforts to prevent dementia is necessary to achieve population-level health equity in dementia-attributable mortality by sex.
Authors
- Talita D’Aguiar Rosa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0153-4763)
- Li Fan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4722-3933)
- Samir Soneji (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8735-276X)
- Ying Xian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1237-1162)
- Jay B. Lusk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5728-8872)
- Brian Mac Grory (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3914-8419)
- Brystana G. Kaufman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6553-0406)
- Cassie B. Ford (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5940-2552)
- Kim G. Johnson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8793-2489)
- Sneha Mantri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4556-0522)
- Rashmita Basu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1559-270X)
- Bradley G. Hammill (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0389-6434)
- Emily C. O’Brien (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8257-7561)
- Beau Blass (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2990-0817)
- Richard O’Brien (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4463-158X)
Institutions
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- University of North Carolina Health Care (US)
- Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (US)
- Duke University (US)
- East Carolina University (US)
- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JAMA Neurology
- Published
- 2025-08-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol.2025.2236
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 10.84