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Research

31,380 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.

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Showing 126–150 of 150 studies in Risk factors published 2022 (page 6 of 6) · 31,380 in the whole library · How the 0–100 score works

Download bibliography of these 150 studies, in this order: BibTeX (.bib) · RIS (.ris)

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Each number is how many studies that link shows, with your other filters kept.

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Authors

Names as each record prints them; the same person can appear under two spellings.

Institutions

From OpenAlex; 16,851 studies have no institution on record and are not counted here.

What “Risk factors” covers

Risk factors — Conditions, exposures and habits linked to a higher or lower chance of dementia, and how strong each link is.

A note on reading research. One study is rarely the final word.

We try to note the size of a study, whether it was in humans or animals, and how early-stage the finding is. If a summary here doesn't make that clear, treat it with extra caution and check the original source.

Area Deprivation Index and Progression to Dementia (S2.007)

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Neurology 2022-05-03

To investigate the association of the area deprivation index (ADI), as assigned at the census block group-level, with progression to dementia in cognitively unimpaired at baseline participants (≥50 years old) of the population-based Mayo Clinic Study of Aging (MCSA). 1 key finding →

Evidence: low

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Testing the Association Between Neighborhood Disadvantage and White Matter Hyperintensities

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2022-12-01

CVD risk has been associated with white matter lesions known as white matter hyperintensities (WMH) because they produce increased signal on fluid‐attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) MRI scans. 5 key findings →

Participants: 804 Evidence: moderate

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Evaluation of four gamma-based methods for calculating confidence intervals for age-adjusted mortality rates when data are sparse

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Population Health Metrics 2022-05-07

The three modifications had comparable performance when the number of deaths was large relative to the denominator and the age distribution was as in the standard population. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source Free full text

Anger expression moderates the effects of neighborhood disadvantage on cognitive decline among African‐Americans in the Jackson Heart Study and Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2022-12-01

Dispositional inward anger expression may increase susceptibility to the detrimental impacts of neighborhood disadvantage on cognitive health. 2 key findings →

Design: cohort study Evidence: moderate

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ASSOCIATION BETWEEN VIOLENT CRIME INCIDENT PROXIMITY AND COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN OLDER AFRICAN AMERICANS

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2022-11-01

Research on Area Deprivation Index (ADI) suggests that the built environment and neighborhood stressors (e.g., violent crime incidents) play a role in later-life cognitive function. 4 key findings →

Participants: 147 Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source Free full text

198 A UNIQUE COMMUNITY POST-DIAGNOSTIC DEMENTIA SUPPORT SERVICE DELIVERED BY THE ADVANCED NURSE PRACTITIONER

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Age and Ageing 2022-10-25

Patient satisfaction outcomes range from 71 - 100% with service intervention outcomes favourably indicating the direct impact of the service, which are unmeasurable to the older adult living with dementia, and include increases in: (i) Confidence - 90%; (ii) Mood - 50% and (iii) open to talking through difficulties encountered - 87%. 3 key findings →

Participants: 67,744 Evidence: low

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Increased Precision in County-Level Volume Estimates in the United States National Forest Inventory With Area-Level Small Area Estimation

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 2022-04-26

Many National Forest Inventory (NFI) stakeholders would benefit from accurate estimates at finer geographic scales than most currently implemented in operational estimates using NFI sample data. 3 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source Free full text

Data-Driven Food Desert Metric to Understand Access to Grocery Stores Using Chi-Square Automatic Interaction Detector Decision Tree Analysis

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 30 out of 100. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2022

A food desert is a geographic area lacking spatial and socioeconomic access to healthy foods. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Cochlear Implants Now More Accessible to Older Adults

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 28 out of 100. The Hearing Journal 2022-12-17

Benefits Beyond Auditory Rehabilitation Research conducted by Frank Lin and colleagues found that individuals with untreated mild, moderate, and severe hearing loss had, respectively, a twofold, threefold, and fivefold increased risk of dementia compared with individuals with normal hearing. 4 Research suggests that early auditory rehabilitation is important for people of all ages, including older adults, as it can provide benefits and improvements beyond hearing ability such as cognitive function and mitigation of depression. 5 key findings →

Evidence: low

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Short-Term Impacts of COVID-19 Public Health Regulation on Consumer Food Purchases: A Case Study From a Grocery Store in Montana

✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 28 out of 100. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 2022-02-01

The mitigation measures (e.g., lockdown policies) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic impacted food systems in unprecedented ways, in both scope and immediacy. 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source Free full text

Modifiable Risk Factors for Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias Among Adults Aged ≥45 Years - United States, 2019

⚠ Report — not peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report 2022-05-20

Alzheimer disease,* the most common cause of dementia, affects an estimated 6.5 million persons aged ≥65 years in the United States (1). 2 key findings →

Evidence: low

Full summary, score breakdown and related studies → Original source

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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
  • Randomized / 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
  • Multicenter 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 31,380 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 31,380 records, built mostly from automated pulls of Europe PMC (65.6% of the library) and OpenAlex (16.2%), 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.

1,048 records (3.3% of the library) are not peer-reviewed — 973 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.

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