MedCentral quoted Mireille Jacobson regarding a study that found that men with dementia experience higher mortality rates and increased healthcare utilization compared to women. “While the results are very intriguing, I think more analysis is needed to assess whether these results are attributable to differences in unobserved factors, such as disease severity, or inadequately controlled factors, such as comorbid conditions, between men and women, or whether there is truly a sex difference in mortality after a dementia diagnosis,” she said.
