Web MD - Dementia
is now one of the leading killers in the United States, with the rate
of deaths linked to the disease more than doubling over the past two
decades.
"Overall, age-adjusted death rates for dementia increased
from 30.5 deaths per 100,000 in 2000 to 66.7 in 2017," say a team of
researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In sheer numbers, the new analysis of death certificate data
shows that dementia was noted as the primary cause for nearly 262,000
deaths in 2017, with 46 percent of those deaths due to Alzheimer's disease. That's up from about 84,000 deaths attributed to dementia in 2000.
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I'd bet folding money that that's an artifact of awareness. Stigmatised causes of death, e.g. suicide, are often dissembled out of concern for the family's social wellbeing.
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