Hispanic ethnicity and in-hospital morbidity and mortality outcomes in Alzheimer's Disease: A U.S. National Study 2005–2015

Hispanics are one of the largest and fastest-growing population in the United States. Having been reported as one of the high-risk ethnicities to develop Alzheimer's Disease (AD) makes elder Hispanics one of the significant groups of AD in the country, indicating a need to study the disparities in Hispanics vs. non-Hispanics patients. We aimed to determine the prevalence, morbidity, and mortality outcomes of AD in Hispanics. We surveyed Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) from 2005 to 2015 to identify patients older than 50 years who were admitted for any reason and had AD diagnosis. Prevalence, demographics, age brackets, in-hospital deaths, disease severity, and hospital length of stay (LOS) were compared between the Hispanics and Non-Hispanics. Among 14,135,560 Hispanic discharges, 2.76% had AD, compared with 207,515,260 discharges in Non-Hispanic with 2.61% AD, p