Prevalence Data
Agitation associated with dementia due to Alzheimer's disease is highly prevalent1
Symptoms of agitation may be prevalent even in early or mild stages of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease1
aAdapted from a retrospective database study of 320,886 community-dwelling patients with ≥1 electronic health record (EHR) indicating Alzheimer's disease (AD)/dementia. Agitation was identified using diagnosis codes for dementia with behavioral disturbance and EHR abstracted notes records indicating agitation symptoms compiled from the International Psychogeriatric Association provisional consensus definition. Patients who had records containing valid quantitative MMSE scores or explicit terms for only one level of AD/dementia severity were categorized accordingly as “mild,” “moderate,” or “severe.”1
bOf the 320,886 eligible patients, 78,827 (24.6%) could be assigned to explicit AD/dementia severity categories over a 2-year period.1
MMSE, Mini-Mental State Examination.
Reference: 1. Halpern R, Seare J, Tong J, Hartry A, Olaoye A, Aigbogun MS. Using electronic health records to estimate the prevalence of agitation in Alzheimer disease/dementia. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2019;34(3):420-431. doi:10.1002/gps.5030.
Agitation may worsen the impact of an already devastating disease1
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