Pain in patients with different dementia subtypes, mild cognitive impairment, and subjective cognitive impairment

Abstract

Objective. To assess the pain prevalence, pain intensity, and pain medication use in older patients with a diagnosed subtype of dementia, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), or subjective cognitive impairment (SCI). Design. Cross-sectional. Setting. Outpatient memory clinics. Subjects. In total, 759 patients with Alzheimer?s disease (AD), vascular dementia, mixed AD and vascular pathology (MD), frontotemporal dementia, dementia with Lewy Bodies, MCI, or SCI. Methods. Self-reported presence and intensity of pain, prescribed medication, and related descriptive variables were given for each group. To compare groups on prevalence of pain, logistic regression analyses were adjusted for age, gender, ..