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Death in People with Down syndrome: Mortality statistics and novel predictors in US Medicaid and Medicare enrolled adults

2026-07-20

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People with Down syndrome have higher age-specific mortality rates compared to the general population as well as peers with other intellectual and developmental disabilities. While a large proportion of mortality is attributable to Alzheimer’s disease, many die prior to Alzheimer’s diagnosis and some live to old ages, dying without Alzheimer’s. Our objectives were to use 11 years of Medicaid and Medicare data to d...

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Literature Corpus work: 569e86fb-c997-5aaf-bb80-f406c1928ffd
DOI: 10.64898/2026.07.17.26358090

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