Table 1

List of patients

Patient NoAgeSexPostmortem delay (h)Cause of death
Diffuse Lewy body disease (DLBD):
180M7Suffocation
282F4Pneumonia
386F6Pneumonia
468M4Pneumonia
574M3Pneumonia
671M3Pneumonia
784M4Heart failure
Alzheimer’s disease (AD):
873F0.5Heart failure
963M1.5Heart failure
1083F2Bleeding of the alimentary tract
1186M5Pneumonia
1263M6Heart failure
1380M1Pneumonia
1482M3Heart failure
1584F1Heart failure
1686F5Heart failure
1776M2Heart failure
1886F2Colon cancer
Controls:
1980M0.5Pneumonia
2085F8Pneumonia
2191M2Lung cancer
2284M12Pneumonia
2387F3Heart failure
2489F18Heart failure, Sick sinus syndrome
2591M2Uraemia