baseline age = 79.6 years, 60.6% female. 5 key findings →
Design: systematic review Evidence: high
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27,380 Alzheimer's and dementia studies in plain English, each scored out of 100.
baseline age = 79.6 years, 60.6% female. 5 key findings →
Design: systematic review Evidence: high
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The discovery cohort contained 3,671 individuals with a mean age of 68 years and consisted of 49% reported female. 5 key findings →
Participants: 3,671 Evidence: moderate
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= 0.009). Other neuropathologies were similar across cognitive groups. 4 key findings →
Design: cohort study Participants: 40 Evidence: moderate
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These data support distinct processes in the initiation and progression of AD pathology within the temporal cortex: Deposition of Abeta reaches a "ceiling" early in the disease process, whereas NFT formation, synaptic loss, and gliosis continue throughout the course of the illness. 1 key finding →
Evidence: moderate
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CSF NFL differs among different neurodegenerative diseases and is especially high in dementias engaging subcortical brain regions, such as VaD and mixed AD and VaD, but also in frontotemporal dementia. 1 key finding →
Participants: 478 Evidence: low
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The incidence of amyloid PET positivity is approximately 13% per year among CN participants over age 70 sampled from a population-based cohort. 4 key findings →
Participants: 207 Evidence: moderate
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Our findings suggest that the informant report is particularly relevant in patients with MCI where it strongly relates to higher amyloid-PET, indicative of impairment due to AD. 2 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional Participants: 25 Evidence: moderate
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Even in a highly selected lifespan sample of adults, Aβ deposition is apparent in some adults and is influenced by APOE status. 5 key findings →
Participants: 137 Evidence: low
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Mean IGF-1 levels were 144 ± 60 μg/L in generation 1 and 114 ± 37 μg/L in generation 2. 3 key findings →
Participants: 789 Evidence: low
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As potential harbingers of future cognitive decline, physicians should query and monitor SMCs from their older patients. 1 key finding →
Participants: 531 Evidence: moderate
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The data do not support an association between serum total cholesterol or high density lipoprotein in late life and subsequent risk of dementia or Alzheimer disease (AD). 5 key findings →
Design: cohort study Evidence: moderate
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The APOE-4 allele increases risk and decreases age at onset of PD, an association that may not be dependent upon cognitive impairment. 3 key findings →
Design: case-control study Evidence: moderate
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AD biomarkers are useful to predict AD-type dementia in subjects with aMCI and naMCI. 4 key findings →
Participants: 231 Evidence: moderate
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Lowering brain Aβ must be accomplished early in the evolution of AD. 4 key findings →
Participants: 475 Evidence: low
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The recently published results of the 18-month randomized controlled trial of lecanemab, reporting the efficacy of the drug in slowing the progression of early Alzheimer disease, quickly led to approval by the FDA and widespread acceptance of lecanemab treatment. 4 key findings →
Design: randomized controlled trial Evidence: high
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In recent years, accumulating evidence has suggested that vascular risk factors contribute to Alzheimer disease (AD). 1 key finding →
Evidence: low
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The late-life dementia risk index accurately stratified older adults into those with low, moderate, and high risk of developing dementia. 2 key findings →
Participants: 480 Evidence: low
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based volumetric measurements of medial temporal lobe (MTL) structures can discriminate between normal elderly control subjects and patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) of moderate to advanced severity. 1 key finding →
Participants: 94 Evidence: low
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Forty-three patients with PD were demented at follow-up evaluation, equivalent to an incidence rate of 95.3 per 1,000 person-years (95% CI, 68.2 to 122.0). 2 key findings →
Participants: 171 Evidence: moderate
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It was possible to assign all patients to one of the PD stages. 2 key findings →
Participants: 88 Evidence: moderate
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Hippocampal atrophy is not specific for AD but is also seen in semantic dementia. 2 key findings →
Participants: 26 Evidence: low
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Poor performance on free recall from FCSR predicts future dementia. 3 key findings →
Design: longitudinal study Evidence: moderate
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FTD is a malignant disorder with limited life expectancy. 5 key findings →
Participants: 31 Evidence: low
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The frontal lobes are most severely affected by SIVD. 4 key findings →
Participants: 78 Evidence: low
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During follow-up, 13 healthy patients converted to MCI or Alzheimer disease (AD), whereas 39 MCI subjects converted to AD. 5 key findings →
Participants: 72 Evidence: low
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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.
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.
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