ArticleiScience2026
Comorbidity patterns and sex differences in late-onset Alzheimer's disease using electronic records.
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In this retrospective study, we applied unsupervised learning techniques to electronic medical records from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to characterize Alzheimer's disease (AD) comorbidity patterns. Given the well-known female predominance in AD, we performed sex-stratified analyses to explore differences in comorbidity patterns based on sex. Findings were evaluated using an independent UC-wide dataset. Among 8,363 patients in the UCSF dataset, we observed five data-driven comorbidity clusters related to cardiovascular conditions, gastrointestinal disorders, and frailty-related conditions such as pneumonia and pressure ulcers, as well as groups with higher and lower overall comorbidity burden. Sex-stratified analyses within clusters identified variation in comorbidity patterns, including circulatory diseases in males in cluster 2 and bladder stones in females in cluster 3. Key results demonstrate partial consistency in the UC-wide dataset. Our study provides a structured characterization of comorbidity heterogeneity in AD and highlights sex-related differences, though findings should be interpreted as descriptive and hypothesis-generating.
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