We identified 34 epidemiological studies that met the inclusion criteria. 5 key findings →
Design: narrative review Evidence: low
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Research
27,380 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
43/100
Dementia, a syndrome characterized by a decline in cognitive function beyond what is expected from normal aging, poses a significant global health challenge. 5 key findings →
Design: meta-analysis Evidence: high
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Of the 130,605 included patients with ischemic stroke, 12,696 (9.7%) patients developed SHS. 5 key findings →
Evidence: moderate
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Older stroke survivors engaging in regular PA had a 38 % reduced risk of dementia [Odds Ratio (OR) =0.62, 95 % Confidence Interval (CI): 0.56-0.69, P < 0.001] and a 44 % lower risk of mortality [Hazard Ratio (HR) =0.56, 95 % CI: 0.52-0.59, P < 0.001]. 5 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate
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Chronic conditions such as obesity, diabetes, and dementia are increasing in the United States (US) population. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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43/100
In this study, 97 patients with senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT) in a nursing home were followed over a period of 2 years, and the relationship between falls and gait function was examined. 4 key findings →
Participants: 97 Evidence: low
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The daily rhythm in serum melatonin levels was measured in patients with dementia of the degenerate type (Alzheimer's disease, Pick's disease and senile dementia of the Alzheimer type) by radioimmunoassay. 2 key findings →
Participants: 13 Evidence: low
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This review traces evidence that age-related dementia (Alzheimer's disease) results from the destructive impact of the pulse on cerebral vasculature. 2 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Familism has been pointed out as a key value in Hispanic culture that may or may not be associated with caregiver distress. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Emerging evidence suggests that some of these effects are similar to those seen in adults with symptoms of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in the early stages of dementia, including impaired concentration, orientation, acquisition of recent memories (anterograde amnesia), recall of past memories (retrograde amnesia), social functioning, and self-care. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Over 15 years of follow-up (UKB), moderate or high CVH versus low CVH was associated with a lower risk of MCI (hazard ratio 0.82 [95% CI 0.71, 0.95], P < 0.05) but not with risk of all-cause dementia (0.97 [0.84, 1.11], P = 0.63). 4 key findings →
Participants: 41,374 Evidence: low
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The presence of cognitive lapses in the post-COVID-19 period, particularly among younger individuals, suggests a potential genetic predisposition. 2 key findings →
Participants: 162 Evidence: low
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From 1992 to 2021, ADOD incidence among individuals aged ≥55 increased by 143.88%. 5 key findings →
Evidence: moderate
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42/100
The literature review scrutinized 1394 articles, selecting 14 through rigorous evaluation. 5 key findings →
Evidence: high
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Higher socioeconomic status and increased frequency of physical activity were associated with a lower risk of both EOD and LOD. 5 key findings →
Design: case-control study Evidence: moderate
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42/100
Individuals with Alzheimer’s dementia exhibited poorer nutritional status (EdFED: 8.0 vs. 2.0; NUFFE: 10.0 vs. 7.0; both p < 0.001) and lower adherence to the Mediterranean diet (6.0 vs. 7.0; p = 0.050). 3 key findings →
Participants: 60 Evidence: low
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Patients in this study were from the China Stroke Center Alliance database. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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The relative risk of dementia following cerebral hemorrhage ( relative risk(RR):3.02[1.17-7.78],P<0.001 ) was higher than that of cerebral infarction (RR: 2.07[1.47-2.96], P<0.001). 5 key findings →
Evidence: high
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Sleep, sedentary behaviour, and physical activity (PA) are important for brain health. 4 key findings →
Participants: 1,899 Evidence: low
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Diabetes is a major public health burden. 3 key findings →
Evidence: low
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41/100
Dementia and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are major causes of disability in the elderly. n-3 Fatty acids, particularly docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), are highly concentrated in brain and retinal tissue and may prevent or delay the progression of dementia and AMD. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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Dementia prevalence increases with age and Alzheimer's disease (AD) accounts for up to 75% of cases. 4 key findings →
Evidence: low
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14,292 patients were diagnosed with dementia over 2018–2021 (age 76.5+/−10.3 years; 53.1% female), with 96.3% linked to a census-tract-level ADI. 5 key findings →
Participants: 4,600 Evidence: low
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Dual-related differences were significantly larger than race/ethnicity differences in PAC transitions. 5 key findings →
Evidence: low
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41/100
BackgroundThere are limited studies quantifying the extent to which neighborhood deprivation affects mortality in individuals living with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (AD/ADRD).ObjectiveTo quantify to what extent neighborhood deprivation affects adverse outcomes in individuals living with AD/ADRD.MethodsWe identified individuals with AD/ADRD using a 15% random sample of national Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries. 1 key finding →
Evidence: moderate
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From across this tag
10 of the 1,130 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.
- Risk of dementia in stroke-free patients diagnosed with atrial fibrillation: data from a population-based cohort
- Alcohol consumption and risk of dementia: the Rotterdam Study
- Associations between physical frailty and dementia incidence: a prospective study from UK Biobank
- Predicting cognitive decline: a dementia risk score vs. the Framingham vascular risk scores
- Sleep disturbances increase the risk of dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis
- Cerebral Perfusion and the Risk of Dementia: A Population-Based Study
- Promoting Healthy Aging: Public Health as a Leader for Reducing Dementia Risk
- Impact of Glucagon‐Like Peptide‐1 Receptor Agonists on the Dementia Incidence in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Population‐Based Longitudinal Cohort Study
- Depressive symptoms and risk of dementia: the Framingham Heart Study
- Association Between Birth in a High Stroke Mortality State, Race, and Risk of Dementia
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 27,380 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 27,380 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (60.6% of the library) and OpenAlex (18.6%), 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.
1,032 records (3.8% 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 →