Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Dementia in Greece

Table 5

Differences of dementia patients in rural and urban areas (in %).

	Urban	Rural	value
Early stage diagnosis	40.8	36.2	0.040
Lower educational level^**	35.8	76.3	<0.001
Polypharmacy (3 or more medications)	39.3	31.2	0.004
Comorbidity
Hypertension	49.6	54.4	0.005
Other cardiological disorders	38.4	44.9	<0.001
Diabetes mellitus	27.4	32.8	0.001
Psychiatric disorders	20.4	23.2	0.044
Morbus Parkinson	11.5	13.1	0.147
Neurological disorders	5.9	8.8	0.001

First 6 years of formal education.