| Abstract: | Taiwan has entered aging society. The risk of dementia grew with aging, especially for the elder population of age 65 and above. Paying more attention on the elder or on the adult who are vulnerable at their early stage with dementia, by prevention programs con reduce their risk.
This study aimed to analyze the dementia incidence and type distribution regarding the middle-aged population in Taiwan. The relationships between dementia and hypertension, atherosclerosis, arterial embolism and thrombosis, Raynaud's syndrome, and Kawasaki disease were researched and explored respectively. The data from Taiwan National Health Insurance database was adopted. At first, we used the ICD_9 codes of dementia to extract the patients with dementia, the same amount patients without dementia were sampling randomly. For these patient samples, disease status regarding hypertension, atherosclerosis, arterial embolism and thrombosis, Raynaud's syndrome, and Kawasaki disease were defined with corresponding ICD_9 codes. Statistical methods were applied in these patient samples to estimate the dementia regarding hypertension, atherosclerosis, arterial embolism and thrombosis, Raynaud's syndrome, and Kawasaki disease.
Our results showed that the patients with hypertension, atherosclerosis, arterial embolism and thrombosis, and Raynaud's syndrome had a higher risk of dementia than thosr without the above diseases.
Different types of dementia had various comorbid chronic diseases is deserved more attentions for medical personnel with the competent authorities. The public should be educated with dementia’s early stage’s symptoms to increase the chance for potential patients to take early medical treatment and decelerate deterioration of the health functions. |
