1Co-morbidity and polypharmacy in people with dementia: insights from a large, population-based cross-sectional analysis of primary care data Word count: 2,303 Competing interestsWe declare the following interests: BG and GM report grants from the Chief Scientist Office ARPG 07/01 during the conduct of the study. Authors' ContributionsBG and SWM conceived the idea of the study. GMcL carried out statistical analysis and drafting of the results and methodology with BG. FC drafted literature review and interpretation of findings with BG, ER and SWM. All authors contributed to draft revisions. All authors approved the final version before submission. SWM is the guarantor for this study. AcknowledgementsThis analysis had no external funding. The original study which created the dataset was funded by Scottish Government Chief Scientist Office Applied Research Programme Grant 07/01. The funder had no role in study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing of the report, or the decision to submit for publication. The corresponding author had full access to all the data in the study and had final responsibility for the decision to submit for publication. We would like to thank all the practices which gave permission for the data to be used for research and the Primary Care Clinical Informatics Unit at the University of Aberdeen, which provided the data contained herein. The views in this publication are not necessarily the views of the University of Aberdeen, its agents, or employees. We thank Katie Wilde and Fiona Chaloner of the University of Aberdeen, who did the initial data extraction and management. This paper reports a large cross sectional study of polypharmacy and physical comorbidity among older people with dementia.People with dementia had more physical conditions and were also prescribed more medications than those without dementia.This data highlights the importance of integrating specialist and non-specialist care to support complex symptom management.

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