Development of Regional Disparities in Alzheimer's Disease Mortality in the Slovak Republic from 1996 to 2015.

Development of Regional Disparities in Alzheimer's Disease Mortality in the Slovak Republic from 1996 to 2015. Int J Alzheimers Dis. 2018;2018:3149495 Authors: Gavurová B, Kováč V, Jarčušková D Abstract Alzheimer's disease-subsequently as AD in the text-represents a chronic neurodegenerative disease discussed very often in the recent period. It involves the G30 diagnosis expressing exactly AD and also the F00 diagnosis epitomising dementia in AD. The Slovak Republic has a very various population in terms of the disparities of the population localisation. The analysis is executed on the basement of the standardised mortality rate. It is calculated for the individual districts of the Slovak Republic to get a detailed spatial view and for each year of the explored period from 1996 to 2015 to get a time development. It has a considerably rising tendency. Therefore, the regional disparities of the standardised mortality rate of AD are analysed from an angle of view of its similarity, by its measurement in a form of a Euclidean distance approach. The results of the analysis offer the heat maps as the distance matrices in a graphic form and the maps of the individual districts too. These outputs reveal a very heterogeneous structure of the standardised mortality rate. Another graphic outcome demonstrates a distribution of its values among the districts throughout the whole Slovak Republic for the whole observed period. The results off...
Source: International Journal of Alzheimers Disease - Category: Geriatrics Tags: Int J Alzheimers Dis Source Type: research