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Review of Associations of Diabetes and Insulin Resistance With Brain Health in Three Harmonised Cohort Studies of Ageing and Dementia

49/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews

Key finding: Examining the risk of clinically diagnosed dementia in older adults, our study found a 65% increased risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia in individuals with diabetes compared with those without. +4 more findings

• Risk Factors

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The potential impact of optimal blood pressure treatment intensity to reduce disparities in dementia between Black and White individuals

38/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Journal of Alzheimer s Disease

Key finding: average annual dementia incidence in White, but not Black, adults (1% versus 0%), due to hypertensive individuals' greater survival, and reduce annual ASCVD events more in Black than White adults (13% versus 5%). +4 more findings

• Risk Factors
• Health Equity

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Rural-urban differences in modifiable dementia risk factors among U.S. populations aged 45 years or older

51/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Journal of Alzheimer s Disease Reports

Key finding: The study population consisted of 16,981 individuals (mean age: 62.4, 51.6% female, 68.7% non-Hispanic White, 15.5% in rural areas). +4 more findings

• Risk Factors
• Health Equity
• Prevention

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Projected Prevalence and Economic Burden of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias in China: Regional Disparities and Policy Implications

49/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Health Data Science

Key finding: By 2060, ADRD cases in China are projected to reach approximately 49.89 million, with the highest prevalence and economic burden concentrated in provinces such as Shandong, Sichuan, Jiangsu, Henan, and Guangdong. +4 more findings

• Policy
• Health Equity

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Rural–urban disparities of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias: A scoping review

56/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Disparities Alzheimer s & Dementia Translational Research & Clinical Interventions

Key finding: The rising age of the global population has made Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) a critical public health problem, with significant health-related disparities observed between rural and urban areas.

• Health Equity

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Relationship between caregiver characteristics and the reported quality of life of people with mild and moderate dementia

36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Revista CUIDARTE

Key finding: The study found significant correlations between caregiver competence, QoL, and burden/stress with the QoL of individuals with dementia. +3 more findings

• Caregiving

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Clinical Practice Guidelines for Dementia: Recommendations for the Pharmacological Treatment of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms

48/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Dementia and Neurocognitive Disorders

Key finding: Recommendations vary by medication type and symptom severity. +4 more findings

• Treatments

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Self- versus caregiver-reported apathy across neurological disorders

51/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Brain Communications

Key finding: Apathy is a prevalent and persistent neuropsychiatric syndrome across many neurological disorders, significantly impacting both patients and caregivers. +3 more findings

• Caregiving
• Other Dementias

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A user-centred website to support advance care planning for people with dementia and their family caregivers: Development and usability study

41/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Digital Health

Key finding: Website goals were: providing ACP information and facilitating ACP conversations. +4 more findings

• Caregiving

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Informal care for people with dementia in Europe

46/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease

Key finding: Daily informal care time was 0.5 hours higher in moderate compared to mild and 1.3h higher in severe compared to mild cognitive impairment. +2 more findings

• Caregiving

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Comprehensive Dementia Care Models: State of the Science and Future Directions

43/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Research in Gerontological Nursing

Key finding: The rising prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease–related dementias has led to renewed public discourse and policy changes in response to the care needs of persons living with dementia and their care partners. +4 more findings

• Policy

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Factors associated with family caregiver burden of patients with dementia

37/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Dementia & Neuropsychologia

Key finding: Regression analysis identified three different models as predictors of caregiver burden. +4 more findings

• Caregiving

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Impact of Kolb’s experiential learning theory-based nursing on caregiver burden and psychological state of caregivers of dementia patients

40/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Caregiving Open Medicine

Key finding: Kolb’s experiential learning theory has a positive impact on alleviating the caregiving burden and reducing anxiety and depression among family caregivers of dementia patients.

• Caregiving

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Uncovering atrophy progression pattern and mechanisms in individuals at risk of Alzheimer's disease

46/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Brain Communications

Key finding: Alzheimer's disease is associated with pre-symptomatic changes in brain morphometry and accumulation of abnormal tau and amyloid-beta pathology. +3 more findings

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Alzheimer Detection Using Deep Learning Methods

27/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging Journal of Intelligent Systems and Internet of Things

Key finding: The findings suggest that the model could help clinicians in diagnosing AD even based on MRI images, which has great potential as a scalable and efficient solution for the early-stage diagnosis and classification of the disease.

• Brain Scans
• Digital Tools

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A survey on various Alzheimer classification techniques using 3D MRI images: a challenging overview

25/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences

• Brain Scans

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Self-Attention Augmented Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network-based Detection of Brain Alzheimer Disease Using MRI

28/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging International Research Journal of Multidisciplinary Scope

Key finding: These results highlight the model's effectiveness and potential to enhance diagnostic accuracy for Alzheimer's disease stages.

• Brain Scans

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A survey on various Alzheimer classification techniques using 3D MRI images: a challenging overview

25/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Brain scans and imaging International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences

Key finding: At the end, the research gaps and issues of the techniques for Alzheimer classification techniques using 3D MRI images is to be revealed.

• Brain Scans

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Two new positive psychosocial measures for persons living with dementia

36/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Alzheimer s & Dementia Translational Research & Clinical Interventions

Key finding: Data from both pilot studies are reported including item analysis and quantitative and qualitative results. +4 more findings

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The Validity and Reliability of the Mini-Mental State Examination-2 for Detecting Vascular Mild Cognitive Impairment and Vascular Dementia in a Korean Population

41/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Journal of Korean Medical Science

Key finding: The MMSE-2 demonstrated robust performance in differentiating participants across Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) stages and CDR-Sum of Boxes scores. +4 more findings

• Diagnosis

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Clinical practice guidelines on addressing cognitive impairment in vascular dementias

48/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Indian Journal of Psychiatry

Key finding: Also, there are no licensed treatments specifically for VD.[3] What sets VD apart from other dementias are the following factors: The etiology of VD is clearly associated with brain tissue loss and dysfunction secondary to vascular pathophysiology in which hypertension seems to be the main reason.[4] While the exact cellular mechanisms are still not clear, it does imply that VD may potentially be largely preventable through better cardiovascular-metabolic risk modification. +4 more findings

• Other Dementias
• Risk Factors

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Sleepiness, sleep time, and depression of caregivers are linked with sleep and behaviors of their paired partners with dementia

34/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Journal of Alzheimer s Disease Reports

Key finding: Mean activity from actigraphy did not differ within dyad members. +4 more findings

• Lifestyle

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Association Between Dementia and Optical Coherence Tomography Scan Quality

51/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Aging and Disease

Key finding: We found that dementia patients were nearly three times more likely to produce poor-quality OCT scans compared to NCI participants (adjusted odds ratio [OR]=2.90; 95% CI, 1.24-6.80). +2 more findings

• Diagnosis

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Test–retest reliability of the computer-based cognitive assessment tool for community-dwelling older adults in Japan: The Otassha study

40/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Digital Health

Key finding: CompBased-CAT demonstrated good test–retest reliability, with an ICC of 0.64 among all participants, which increased to 0.74 among participants with MCI over a 2-month period, indicating its potential for monitoring cognitive function through repeated assessments. +2 more findings

• Diagnosis

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Clinical practice guidelines on addressing cognitive impairment in treatable dementias

56/100 ✓ Peer-reviewed Getting a diagnosis Indian Journal of Psychiatry

Key finding: This is because of the ambiguity surrounding the terminology used to characterize reversible dementia—the variation in the population being studied, or the existence of subclinical instances that are difficult to diagnose.[3] By and large however, the proportion of reversible dementias compared to the irreversible dementias is very low. +4 more findings

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