Indicator Profile of Deaths due to Alzheimer's Disease

Why Is This Important?

Alzheimer's disease is the seventh leading cause of death among New Jersey residents. It was the eighth leading cause of death from 2004 to 2006 and tenth from 1998 to 2003. Prior to that it was not in the top ten.

Age-Adjusted Death Rate due to Alzheimer's Disease by Year, New Jersey and the United States, 2000-2007

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Data Sources

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. Compressed Mortality File. CDC WONDER On-line Database accessed at http://wonder.cdc.gov/cmf-icd10.html;  New Jersey Death Certificate Database, Bureau of Vital Statistics and Registration, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services;  Population Estimates: New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, State Data Center; 

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Definition

Deaths with Alzheimer's disease as the underlying cause of death.
ICD-10 code: G30

How We Calculated the Rates

Numerator: Number of deaths due to Alzheimer's disease
Denominator: Total number of persons in the population

Page Content Updated On 07/12/11, Published on 07/12/11
Center for Health Statistics, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, PO Box 360, Trenton, NJ 08625-0360, Phone: 609-984-6703, Fax: 609-984-7633, e-mail: chs@doh.state.nj.us, Web: www.nj.gov/health/chs
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Content updated: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:01:02 EST