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The present study aims to investigate the associations between sex, environment, age, disease duration, pandemic years, anti-dementia drugs, and death rate.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Data from the regional medication registry were used. All women and men with an anti-dementia medication between 2015 and 2021 were included and followed-up to 2021. Bayesian mixed effects logistic and Cox regression models with time varying exposures were fitted using integrated nested Laplace approximations and adjusting for patients and therapy characteristics.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>A total of 7,961 person-years were observed. Variables associated with lower prevalence of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (AChEIs) medication were male sex (OR 0.63, 95% CrI 0.42\u20130.96), age 70\u201379 years (OR 0.17, 95% CrI 0.06\u20130.47) and\u2009\u2265\u200980\u2009years (OR 0.08, 95% CrI 0.03\u20130.23), disease duration of 2\u20133\u2009years (OR 0.43, 95%\u2009CrI 0.32\u20130.56) and 4\u20136\u2009years (OR 0.21, 95% CrI 0.13\u20130.33), and pandemic years 2020 (OR 0.50, 95% CrI 0.37\u20130.67) and 2021 (OR 0.47, 95% CrI 0.33\u20130.65). Variables associated with higher mortality were male sex (HR 2.14, 95% CrI 1.75\u20132.62), residence in the contaminated site of national interest (SIN) (HR 1.25, 95% CrI 1.02\u20131.53), age\u2009\u2265\u200980\u2009years (HR 6.06, 95% CrI 1.94\u201318.95), disease duration of 1\u2009year (HR 1.50, 95% CrI 1.12\u20132.01), 2\u20133\u2009years (HR 1.90, 95% CrI 1.45\u20132.48) and 4\u20136\u2009years (HR 2.21, 95% CrI 1.60\u20133.07), and pandemic years 2020 (HR 1.38, 95% CrI 1.06\u20131.80) and 2021 (HR 1.56, 95% CrI 1.21\u20132.02). Variables associated with lower mortality were therapy with AChEIs alone (HR 0.69, 95% CrI 0.56\u20130.86) and in combination with memantine (HR 0.54, 95% CrI 0.37\u20130.81).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Male sex, age, disease duration, and pandemic years appeared to be associated with lower AChEIs medications. Male sex, residence in the SIN of Taranto, age, disease duration, and pandemic years seemed to be associated with an increased death rate, while AChEIs medication seemed to be associated with improved survival rate.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpubh.2024.1380609","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,6,12]],"date-time":"2024-06-12T13:10:12Z","timestamp":1718197812000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Sex, environment, and death rate in a dementia cohort: a seven-years Bayesian survival analysis using medications data from a contaminated area in Italy"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Antonia","family":"Mincuzzi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Paolo","family":"Lodeserto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jennifer","family":"Zollino","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Rodolfo","family":"Sardone","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lucia","family":"Bisceglia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Francesco","family":"Addabbo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sante","family":"Minerba","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Vito Gregorio","family":"Colacicco","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Orazio Valerio","family":"Giannico","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,6,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","year":"2023"},{"key":"ref2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"e105","DOI":"10.1016\/S2468-2667(21)00249-8","article-title":"Global burden of disease 2019 dementia forecasting collaborators. 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