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Newest in this topic

  1. Public awareness of the hearing loss-dementia link and self-reported behavioral changes in middle- to older-aged Canadians 2026-09-26
  2. Patterns of modifiable lifestyle, behavioural and health-related risk factors and their associations with incident dementia in UK Biobank 2026-09-25
  3. Excess hypoglycaemia-related hospitalisation in older adults with comorbid type 2 diabetes and dementia: a UK Biobank cohort study 2026-09-16

Studies

1,143 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1978 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 134
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia 52
  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 33
  • Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 32
  • JAMA neurology 28

362 journals in all.

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  1. Anticholinergic Drug Exposure and the Risk of Dementia: A Nested Case-Control Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. JAMA internal medicine 2019-08-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Exposure to several types of strong anticholinergic drugs is associated with an increased risk of dementia.

  2. Association of Lifestyle and Genetic Risk With Incidence of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. JAMA 2019-08-01 Prevention and risk

    Among older adults without cognitive impairment or dementia, both an unfavorable lifestyle and high genetic risk were significantly associated with higher dementia risk.

  3. Association of Midlife to Late-Life Blood Pressure Patterns With Incident Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. JAMA 2019-08-01 Disparities

    Late-life declines in blood pressure following prolonged hypertension may be associated with poor cognitive outcomes.

  4. Hemoglobin and anemia in relation to dementia risk and accompanying changes on brain MRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2019-07-31 Brain scans and imaging

    During a mean follow-up of 12.1 years, 1,520 individuals developed dementia, 1,194 of whom had AD.

  5. Risk of dementia in stroke-free patients diagnosed with atrial fibrillation: data from a population-based cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. European heart journal 2019-07-01 Vascular contributions

    Incident AF was associated with an increased risk of dementia, independent of clinical stroke in an elderly population.

  6. The relationship between sleep duration, cognition and dementia: a Mendelian randomization study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. International journal of epidemiology 2019-06-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Linear MR suggested that each additional hour/day of sleep was associated with 1% [95% confidence interval (CI) = 0-2%; P = 0.008] slower reaction time and 3% more errors in visual-memory test (95% CI = 0-6%; P = 0.05).

  7. The Association of Late-Life Diabetes Status and Hyperglycemia With Incident Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia: The ARIC Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Diabetes care 2019-05-21 Disparities

    Diabetes status, poor glycemic control, and longer diabetes duration were associated with worse cognitive outcomes over a median follow-up of 5 years.

  8. Multiple Sensory Impairment Is Associated With Increased Risk of Dementia Among Black and White Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2019-05-01 Disparities

    Sensory impairments were common: 28% had visual impairment, 35% had hearing loss, 22% had poor smell, 12% had touch insensitivity; 26% had more than two impairments, and 5.6% had more than three sensory impairments.

  9. Population attributable fractions for risk factors for dementia in low-income and middle-income countries: an analysis using cross-sectional survey data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. The Lancet. Global health 2019-05-01 Prevention and risk

    The overall weighted PAF for potentially modifiable risk factors for dementia was 39·5% (95% CI 37·5-41·6) in China (n=2162 participants), 41·2% (39·1-43·4) in India (n=2004), and 55·8% (54·9-56·7) in our Latin American sample (n=12 865).

  10. Physical inactivity, cardiometabolic disease, and risk of dementia: an individual-participant meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 81 out of 100. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2019-04-17 Risk factors

    In analyses that addressed bias due to reverse causation, physical inactivity was not associated with all-cause dementia or Alzheimer's disease, although an indication of excess dementia risk was observed in a subgroup of physically inactive individuals who developed cardiometabolic disease.

  11. Balance between innate versus adaptive immune system and the risk of dementia: a population-based cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2019-03-30 Long-term cohort studies

    Immunity has been suggested to be important in the pathogenesis of dementia.

  12. Circulating fibroblast growth factor 23 levels and incident dementia: The Framingham heart study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. PloS one 2019-03-04 Long-term cohort studies

    Fibroblast growth factor 23 is an emerging vascular biomarker, recently associated with cerebral small vessel disease and poor cognition in patients on dialysis.

  13. High Cortisol and the Risk of Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease: A Review of the Literature

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2019-03-01 Risk factors

    Clinical studies found that elevated cortisol was associated with poorer overall cognitive functioning, as well as with poorer episodic memory, executive functioning, language, spatial memory, processing speed, and social cognition; while in animals, glucocorticoid administration resulted in cognitive impairment and abnormal behavior.

  14. Risk and predictors of dementia and parkinsonism in idiopathic REM sleep behaviour disorder: a multicentre study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2019-03-01 How common it is

    The overall conversion rate from iRBD to an overt neurodegenerative syndrome was 6.3% per year, with 73.5% converting after 12-year follow-up.

  15. Association of metformin, sulfonylurea and insulin use with brain structure and function and risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease: Pooled analysis from 5 cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. PloS one 2019-02-15 Long-term cohort studies

    Differences between users and non-users of insulin, metformin and sulfonylurea were assessed in each cohort for cognitive and brain MRI measures using linear regression models, and cognitive decline and dementia/AD risk using mixed effect models and Cox regression analyses, respectively.

  16. Neighborhood Food Environment and Dementia Incidence: the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study Cohort Survey

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2019-02-15 Risk factors

    A total of 3,162 cases of dementia occurred during the follow-up.

  17. Incidence and prevalence of dementia associated with transient ischaemic attack and stroke: analysis of the population-based Oxford Vascular Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2019-02-12 Caregiving

    Incidence of dementia is nearly 50 times higher in the year after a major stroke compared with that in the general population, but excess risk is substantially lower after transient ischaemic attack and minor stroke.

  18. Associations of the Mediterranean diet with cognitive and neuroimaging phenotypes of dementia in healthy older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. The American journal of clinical nutrition 2019-02-01 Disparities

    When compared with the Low MedDiet group, the High MedDiet group was associated with better L&M performance and larger dentate gyri.

  19. Effect of Intensive vs Standard Blood Pressure Control on Probable Dementia: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. JAMA 2019-02-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Among ambulatory adults with hypertension, treating to a systolic blood pressure goal of less than 120 mm Hg compared with a goal of less than 140 mm Hg did not result in a significant reduction in the risk of probable dementia.

  20. In China, the crude mortality from AD and other forms of dementia increased from 2009 to 2015, but the age-standardized mortality decreased.

  21. Analysis of the relationship between the gut microbiome and dementia: a cross-sectional study conducted in Japan

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Scientific reports 2019-01-30 Prevention and risk

    Dysregulation of the gut microbiome is associated with several life-threatening conditions and thus might represent a useful target for the prevention of dementia.

  22. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Risk of Dementia and Mortality in Lower to Middle Income Countries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2019-01-28 Risk factors

    Over the 3-year follow-up, almost 10% of participants developed dementia and 14% were deceased.

  23. Implications of sleep disturbance and inflammation for Alzheimer's disease dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2019-01-17 Prevention and risk

    Nearly half of all adults older than 60 years of age report sleep disturbance, as characterised either by reports of insomnia complaints with daytime consequences, dissatisfaction with sleep quality or quantity, or the diagnosis of insomnia disorder.

  24. Early-Life Risk Factors for Dementia and Cognitive Impairment in Later Life: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019-01-01 Disparities

    Early-life factors, including education level, leg length, history of childhood head trauma, family-related factors and learning ability, were associated with the risk of dementia and cognitive impairment in later life.

  25. Modifiable Risk Factors Explain Socioeconomic Inequalities in Dementia Risk: Evidence from a Population-Based Prospective Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019-01-01 Prevention and risk

    Socioeconomic differences in dementia risk can be partly explained by differences in modifiable health conditions and lifestyle factors.

  26. The risk of neurodegeneration in REM sleep behavior disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Sleep medicine reviews 2018-11-08 Risk factors

    Several studies report an association between REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD) and neurodegenerative diseases, in particular synucleinopathies.

  27. Association Between Midlife Risk Factors and Late-Onset Epilepsy: Results From the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2018-11-01 Prevention and risk

    Stroke, dementia, and hypertension are associated with late-onset epilepsy; however, the role of other vascular and lifestyle factors remains unclear.

  28. Tooth loss as a risk factor for dementia: systematic review and meta-analysis of 21 observational studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. BMC psychiatry 2018-10-20 Disparities

    Future well-designed longitudinal researches examining the direct and indirect relationship between tooth loss and dementia risk are encouraged.

  29. Lifetime risk of common neurological diseases in the elderly population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2018-10-02 Long-term cohort studies

    Within the prospective population-based Rotterdam Study, we studied lifetime risk of dementia, stroke and parkinsonism between 1990 and 2016.

  30. Association of Retinal Neurodegeneration on Optical Coherence Tomography With Dementia: A Population-Based Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2018-10-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Retinal structures may serve as a biomarker for dementia, but longitudinal studies examining this link are lacking.

  31. Relationship Between Brain Amyloid Deposition and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living in Older Adults: A Longitudinal Study from the Multidomain Alzheimer Prevention Trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2018-09-12 Treatments

    One hundred two (37.9%) participants were amyloid positive.

  32. Absolute 10-year risk of dementia by age, sex and APOE genotype: a population-based cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne 2018-09-01 Genetics

    Among 104 537 individuals, the absolute 10-year risk of Alzheimer disease in 3017 women and men who were carriers of the APOE ɛ44 genotype was, respectively, 7% and 6% at age 60-69 years, 16% and 12% at age 70-79 years, and 24% and 19% at age 80 years and older.

  33. The mean (SD) age was 73.7 (6.0) years, and the mean (SD) follow-up time was 3.7 (1.2) years.

  34. Stroke and dementia risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-08-31 Risk factors

    Stroke is a strong, independent, and potentially modifiable risk factor for all-cause dementia.

  35. Alcohol consumption and risk of dementia: 23 year follow-up of Whitehall II cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. BMJ 2018-08-01 Prevention and risk

    This 23-year study found a U-shaped relationship between alcohol and dementia risk: people who abstained from alcohol in midlife, as well as those who drank heavily (more than 14 units, about 14 standard drinks, per week), both had a higher risk of developing dementia than people who drank moderately.

  36. Association of orthostatic hypotension with incident dementia, stroke, and cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neurology 2018-07-25 Long-term cohort studies

    We analyzed data from 11,709 participants without a history of coronary heart disease or stroke who attended the baseline examination (1987-1989) of the prospective Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study.

  37. We aimed to evaluate the link between severe hypoglycaemia and domain-specific cognitive decline, smaller brain volumes and dementia in adults with type 2 diabetes, which so far has been relatively poorly characterised.

  38. Combined neuropathological pathways account for age-related risk of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2018-06-26 Disparities

    Age-related increases in dementia risk can be attributed to accumulation of multiple pathologies, each of which contributes to dementia risk.

  39. Midlife vascular risk factors and midlife cognitive status in relation to prevalence of mild cognitive impairment and dementia in later life: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-05-12 Long-term cohort studies

    The interplay between midlife vascular risk factors and midlife cognitive function with later life mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia (DEM) is not well understood.

  40. Anticholinergic drugs and risk of dementia: case-control study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2018-04-25 Getting a diagnosis

    A robust association between some classes of anticholinergic drugs and future dementia incidence was observed.

  41. Nutritional patterns associated with the maintenance of neurocognitive functions and the risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease: A focus on human studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Pharmacological research 2018-03-16 Prevention and risk

    Ample epidemiological evidence suggests a strong correlation among diet, lifestyle factors and the onset and consolidation of dementia and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  42. Midlife cardiovascular fitness and dementia: A 44-year longitudinal population study in women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2018-03-14 Prevention and risk

    Among Swedish women, a high cardiovascular fitness in midlife was associated with a decreased risk of subsequent dementia.

  43. Hearing loss and the risk of dementia in later life

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Maturitas 2018-03-13 Prevention and risk

    Dementia is a major source of disability worldwide and there are currently no available disease-modifying treatments.

  44. Association of Atrial Fibrillation With Cognitive Decline and Dementia Over 20 Years: The ARIC-NCS (Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Neurocognitive Study)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of the American Heart Association 2018-03-07 Disparities

    AF is associated with greater cognitive decline and increased risk of dementia, independent of ischemic stroke.

  45. We found no evidence to support the theory that natural variation in cumulative exposure to endogenous oestrogens across the reproductive period influences dementia incidence in late life.

  46. Contribution of alcohol use disorders to the burden of dementia in France 2008-13: a nationwide retrospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. The Lancet. Public health 2018-02-21 Getting a diagnosis

    Of 31 624 156 adults discharged from French hospitals between 2008 and 2013, 1 109 343 were diagnosed with dementia and were included in the analyses.

  47. Traumatic brain injury history is associated with an earlier age of dementia onset in autopsy-confirmed Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neuropsychology 2018-02-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Data from 2,133 participants with autopsy-confirmed AD (i.e., at least Braak neurofibrillary tangle stages III to VI and CERAD neuritic plaque score moderate to frequent) were obtained from the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC).

  48. The role of education in the association between race/ethnicity/nativity, cognitive impairment, and dementia among older adults in the United States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Demographic research 2018-01-11 Disparities

    Among women, foreign-born Hispanics have higher odds of CIND and dementia than Whites.

  49. Circulating metabolites and general cognitive ability and dementia: Evidence from 11 cohort studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2018-01-06 Prevention and risk

    Circulating metabolites were consistently associated with cognition, dementia, and lifestyle factors, opening new avenues for prevention of cognitive decline and dementia.

  50. Association of Cerebral Amyloid-β Aggregation With Cognitive Functioning in Persons Without Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. JAMA psychiatry 2018-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Cerebral amyloid-β aggregation is an early event in Alzheimer disease (AD).

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