The number of people with dementia has increased dramatically with global ageing. 4 key findings →
Participants: 1,462 Evidence: low
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Research
28,180 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
The average PM2.5 levels in the IHS counties were lower than those in all US counties, while the mean O3 levels in the IHS counties were higher than the US counties. 4 key findings →
Design: cohort study Participants: 26,871 Evidence: moderate
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The relationship between sleep quality, neurofilament light chain (NFL), and cognitive impairment, including the potential effect of plasma NFL in this association, remains unclear. 3 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Participants: 640 Evidence: moderate
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54/100
Of 31 028 older adults in MEPS, 5184 (10%) were African American; 146 (<1%) American Indian or Alaska Native; 1043 (3%) Asian (Indian, Chinese, or Filipino); 5346 (10%) Latino; 690 (2%) Other Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander; and 18 617 (75%) were White. 5 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional Evidence: low
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The moderate to high isolation group demonstrated a significantly elevated risk of dementia compared with the low isolation group. 5 key findings →
Design: cohort study Participants: 8,189 Evidence: moderate
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Over a median follow-up of 13.5 years, 1453 dementia cases were identified. 5 key findings →
Participants: 131,209 Evidence: moderate
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54/100
We identify three distinct profiles: active healthy sleepers (AHS; 64.0%), fragmented poor sleepers (FPS; 14.1%), and long and frequent nappers (LFN; 21.9%). 3 key findings →
Design: cohort study Evidence: moderate
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Social isolation and loneliness were associated with a greater risk for incident dementia among T2DM individuals, with differential explanatory factors. 3 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Participants: 24,986 Evidence: moderate
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In this cohort of 2022 insulin-treated older adults with diabetes and ADRD (1011 CGM users and 1011 SMBG users; mean [SD] age, 76.4 [6.7] years; 1133 female [56.0%]), CGM use was significantly associated with lower risk of all-cause hospitalization (hazard ratio [HR], 0.86; 95% CI, 0.76-0.96) and mortality (HR, 0.57; 95% CI, 0.48-0.67) compared with SMBG use. 5 key findings →
Design: cohort study Evidence: moderate
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- Cognition was assessed with the Ruff Figural Fluency Test (RFFT), measuring non-verbal fluency and executive functioning. 5 key findings →
Design: cohort study Participants: 23,798 Evidence: moderate
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This study included 17,182 participants with a mean age of 69.2 ± 10.6 years, 59.2% of which were women. 5 key findings →
Design: cohort study Participants: 17,182 Evidence: moderate
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Dementia presents an escalating public health challenge worldwide. 5 key findings →
Design: meta-analysis Evidence: high
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for interaction <0.05). We identified a worse cognitive function and an increased mortality risk in dementia patients with RA compared with non-RA. 3 key findings →
Design: cohort study Evidence: moderate
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Living with another adult and higher MMSE scores were significantly associated with later access to home help services (p < 0.001) and care facilities (p < 0.001). 3 key findings →
Design: cohort study Participants: 2,592 Evidence: moderate
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After adjusting for potentially confounding variables such as age, gender, and comorbidities, we found that individuals with mild dementia (HR 1.74 [95% confidence interval (CI) 1.12 to 2.70]; p = 0.01) and moderate to severe dementia (HR 3.05 [95% CI 1.80 to 5.17]; p < 0.001) both demonstrated elevated hazards of death compared with patients without dementia. 5 key findings →
Participants: 156,596 Evidence: moderate
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In the Research Article "Magnitude and Time-Course of Dementia Risk in Stroke Survivors: A Population-Wide Matched Cohort Study" by Joundi et al., 1 the keys for Figure 3, A-D should indicate red for "Stroke," "Ischemic Stroke," "ICH," and "Stroke," respectively. 2 key findings →
Design: cohort study Evidence: moderate
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Increased UPF consumption is associated with higher risks of dementia, CIND, and CIND or dementia among US older adults. 4 key findings →
Design: cohort Participants: 5,370 Evidence: moderate
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These data confirm that NPS are risk factors for conversion from CIND to dementia. 1 key finding →
Participants: 230 Evidence: low
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No associations between n-3 PUFAs and dementia or AD were found. 5 key findings →
Design: cohort study Evidence: moderate
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There is a strong association between late-life depression, cognitive impairment, cerebrovascular disease, and poor cognitive outcomes, including progressive dementia, especially Alzheimer's disease. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Alcoholism is a possible cause of dementia, mainly through associated nutritional deficiencies and, rarely, through acute direct toxicity. 1 key finding →
Participants: 3,777 Evidence: low
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Moderate intake of unsaturated fats at midlife is protective, whereas a moderate intake of saturated fats may increase the risk of dementia and AD, especially among ApoE epsilon4 carriers. 1 key finding →
Participants: 117 Evidence: low
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Caffeine has well-known short-term stimulating effects on central nervous system, but the long-term impacts on cognition have been less clear. 3 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate
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Elderly people taking anticholinergic drugs were at increased risk for cognitive decline and dementia. 5 key findings →
Evidence: moderate
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WMC severity and diabetes are independent predictors of cognitive decline in an initially nondisabled elderly population. 1 key finding →
Participants: 639 Evidence: low
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From across this tag
10 of the 1,131 studies in this tag, picked by a fixed rule (a hash of each study's address), not by score or date; each page of this list shows a different 10. The same 10 appear here every time.
- Chronic kidney disease is associated with dementia independent of cerebral small-vessel disease
- Replacement of leisure-time sedentary behavior with various physical activities and the risk of dementia incidence and mortality: A prospective cohort study
- Alcohol consumption and risk of dementia: the Rotterdam Study
- Association Between Dietary Biotin Intake and Dementia Risk, Including Alzheimer's Disease: A Prospective Study of 122 959 UK Biobank Participants
- Prediction of dementia risk by instrumental activities of daily living limitations and its impact on dementia onset in combination with mild cognitive impairment: a population-based longitudinal study
- Prospective Associations Between Diffusion Tensor Imaging Parameters and Frailty in Older Adults
- Is neuroticism differentially associated with risk of Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, and frontotemporal dementia?
- The age-dependent relation of blood pressure to cognitive function and dementia
- Incidence of dementia and probable Alzheimer's disease in a general population: the Framingham Study
- Relation between smoking and risk of dementia and Alzheimer disease: the Rotterdam Study
Where “Free full text” comes from
Free full text links and the Full text may need a subscription label come from Unpaywall, Europe PMC and OpenAlex records of free copies, checked 10 Oct 2026. A study with neither is unknown, not paywalled. Show only studies that are free to read
How the 0–100 score works — and why some entries are capped
This is alzhub's own score. It is not an official metric, not an impact factor, and no journal, publisher or ranking body endorses it. We built it so that a reader who is not a scientist can tell a landmark trial from a conference abstract without having to already know the difference. Every point comes from one of 20 components, all of them printed on the study itself, so you can disagree with our arithmetic rather than having to trust the total.
- Journal tier up to 10 pts
- Journal's citation record up to 4 pts
- Study design up to 12 pts
- Strength of evidence up to 5 pts
- Peer-review validation up to 10 pts
- How recent up to 5 pts
- Sample size up to 4 pts
- Effect reported up to 3 pts
- Studied in people up to 3 pts
- Randomised / blinded up to 2 pts
- Times cited up to 7 pts
- Citations per year up to 5 pts
- Impact for its field and year up to 6 pts
- Cited by studies here up to 6 pts
- Still being cited up to 4 pts
- Senior author's track record up to 4 pts
- Institution's track record up to 3 pts
- Multi-centre collaboration up to 3 pts
- Indexed in PubMed up to 2 pts
- Free to read up to 2 pts
Journals are placed in ordered tiers, never given a numeric impact factor — we could not verify current impact factors from a source we control, and an invented one would be worse than none. Tier 1 is the top-tier general journals (NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, Nature, Science, Nature Medicine); tier 2 is the leading specialty journals; tier 3 is every other peer-reviewed journal. A separate part scores how much the journal's own papers are cited, which tells the tier-3 journals apart.
Two rules we don't bend. First, we never fill in a missing value: if a record does not state a sample size or a design, that component scores zero, and if we simply have no data for a part, such as a citation count, that part is left out and the study is scored on the parts we could check. The study card says which. Second, anything that is not a peer-reviewed article is capped at 16/100 and carries a warning chip — so a conference abstract or a company press release can never outrank a peer-reviewed paper, no matter how good it looks.
We rank a rigorous null result — a good trial showing that something does not work — above an early positive finding. Someone deciding whether to buy a supplement is served by that, and the rigour is already counted by the design and journal components.
The score is computed from the published data alone and is reproducible: the same file always yields the same numbers.
See the whole rubric drawn out → — four charts covering all 28,180 studies: how the scores are spread and where the cap bites, which of the 20 components the library is strong and weak on, which subjects rest on stronger evidence, and what kinds of study each subject is actually built from.
What this library is — and isn't
This is a large sample of the Alzheimer's literature, not an exhaustive index of it. It holds 28,180 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (61.7% of the library) and OpenAlex (18.1%), plus smaller pulls from PubMed, Crossref and medRxiv. If a study, a drug, or a finding isn't here, that is not evidence it doesn't exist in the literature — it may simply not have been pulled in yet.
1,034 records (3.7% of the library) are not peer-reviewed — 962 of those are preprints posted before any journal review, and the rest are conference abstracts, regulatory notices and reports. Every study card on this page states its status plainly, and the score above is capped for anything that isn't a peer-reviewed article.
See the full, machine-readable breakdown of this library's coverage →