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Advanced Neurology                                                     ADRD comorbidities and senescence




            Table 1. Demographics of individuals in the TriNetX database with and without diagnoses of Alzheimer’s disease
            (ICD‑10 code G30) and/or unspecified dementia (ICD‑10 code F03) who had health care visits in 2021 – 2023, in the age groups
            of 65 – 80 and ≥90 years

            Demographic              ADRD (G30 + F03)   No ADRD (G30 + F03)   ADRD (G30 + F03)   No ADRD (G30 + F03)
            characteristics           aged 65 – 80 years  aged 65 – 80 years  aged 90+ years     aged 90+ years
                                        (n=239,670)        (n=13,071,730)      (n=184,060)       (n=990, 390)
            Mean age (years)               74                  72                 ≥90               ≥90
            Sex (%)
             Female                        54                  53                 67                 60
             Male                          43                  45                 30                 38
             Unknown                       2                    2                  3                 2
            Race (%)
             White                         68                  66                 69                 62
             Black or African American     15                  11                  9                 7
             Asian                         3                    3                  6                 3
             Other, mixed, unknown         14                  20                 16                 28
            Ethnicity (%)
             Non-Hispanic                  74                  65                 74                 63
             Hispanic                      6                    4                  4                 3
             Unknown                       21                  31                 21                 34
            Note: Demographic data were generated from the TriNetX database using the abovementioned search terms. The database search included data on
            more than 150 individuals in the United States who visited a health care provider in 2021 – 2023.
            Abbreviations: ADRD: Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias; ICD-10: International classification of diseases, tenth revision.

            cohort without an ADRD diagnosis had a mean age of   in Table 3 (column A), the 65 – 80-year-old individuals
            72 years. The mean age of the ≥90-year-old cohorts could   with ADRD had risk ratios of ≥2.0 in 6/22 chapters and
            not be calculated  because specific  age values  >89  years   ≥1.5 in 16/22 chapters than the 65 – 80-year-old individuals
            are not provided in the TriNetX database to increase the   without ADRD. Similarly, the ≥90-year-old individuals
            anonymity of these patients.                       with ADRD had risk ratios of ≥2.0 in 15/22 chapters and
              Data  on  sex,  race, and  ethnicity are  provided in   ≥1.5 in 17/22 chapters than the ≥90-year-old individuals
            Table 1; these data were generally consistent with previous   without ADRD (Table 3, column B).
            epidemiological data for ADRD.                       Furthermore, the pattern of risk ratios of individuals

            3.2. ICD-10 chapter code analysis of cohorts       with and without ADRD in both the 65 – 80-year-old and
                                                               ≥90-year-old cohorts was almost identical, as shown by
            Table 2 shows the prevalence of signs, symptoms, and   scatterplots in Figure 1A and B.
            disorders within each of the 22 major ICD-10 code
            chapters for each of the four study cohorts. To facilitate   The Pearson correlation coefficients for the data in
            the comparisons of the chapter data, each decile of the   Figure 1A were 0.88 (p < 0.00001) between 65 and 80-year-
            prevalence data was coded by a different color and/or text   old individuals with  and without ADRD and 0.86  (p <
            bolding, as described in the table legend.         0.00001) between ≥90-year-old individuals with and
                                                               without ADRD.
              Prevalence rates in the ADRD cohorts were higher than
            those in the non-ADRD cohorts in 21 of the 22 ICD-10   Risk ratio comparisons were also performed between
            chapters (there was a 0% prevalence of perinatal disorders   the younger and older cohorts with ADRD and without
            in all four cohorts).                              ADRD. As illustrated  in  Table 3 (column C), the
                                                               ≥90-year-old ADRD cohort had risk ratios of ≥1.5 in 0/22
            3.3. Risk ratios based on the prevalence of signs,   chapters compared with those of the 65 – 80-year-old ADRD
            symptoms, and disorders in the 22 ICD-10 chapters  cohort. Similarly, as presented in Table 3 (column D), the
            Risk ratios were calculated using the prevalence data, as   ≥90-year-old non-ADRD cohort had risk ratios of ≥1.5 in
            shown in Table 2, for each cohort comparison. As presented   0/22 chapters compared with those of the 65 – 80-year-old



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