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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. APOE and the risk of PD with or without dementia in a population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2000-03-01 Long-term cohort studies

    The study formed part of the Rotterdam Study, a prospective, population-based cohort study on the frequency, etiology, and prognosis of chronic diseases.

  2. Frequency and clinical determinants of dementia after ischemic stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurology 2000-03-01 Disparities

    Dementia is frequent after ischemic stroke, occurring in one-fourth of the elderly patients in the authors' cohort.

  3. Fatty acid intake and the risk of dementia and cognitive decline: a review of clinical and epidemiological studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. The journal of nutrition, health & aging 2000-01-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Dietary intake of fatty acids may be related to dementia and cognitive function through a number of plausible mechanisms, such as atherosclerosis and thrombosis, inflammation, via an effect on brain development and membrane functioning, or via accumulation of beta-amyloid.

  4. Midlife blood pressure and dementia: the Honolulu-Asia aging study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2000-01-01 How common it is

    We studied the association of mid-life blood pressure to late age dementia, specifically Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia.

  5. Diabetes mellitus and the risk of dementia: The Rotterdam Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Neurology 1999-12-01 How common it is

    The diabetes attributable risk for dementia of 8.8% suggests that diabetes may have contributed to the clinical syndrome in a substantial proportion of all dementia patients.

  6. Gender differences in the incidence of AD and vascular dementia: The EURODEM Studies. EURODEM Incidence Research Group

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurology 1999-12-01 How common it is

    Compared with men, women have an increased risk for AD.

  7. Head trauma and risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease: The Rotterdam Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurology 1999-12-01 Long-term cohort studies

    It has been suggested that the risk might be particularly increased for carriers of the APOE-epsilon4 allele.

  8. A high plasma concentration of TNF-alpha is associated with dementia in centenarians

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 1999-07-01 How common it is

    This study demonstrates that, even in apparently healthy subjects, age-associated immune activation indicated by raised levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines may reflect age-associated pathological processes that develop over decades.

  9. The temporal relationship between depressive symptoms and dementia: a community-based prospective study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 1999-03-01 Disparities

    Depressive symptoms appeared to be early manifestations, rather than predictors, of Alzheimer disease in this community sample.

  10. Education and the incidence of dementia in a large population-based study: the Rotterdam Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 1999-02-01 Long-term cohort studies

    We assessed the risk of dementia by educational level in a prospective population-based study.

  11. Contrary to previous reports, head trauma was not a risk factor for AD, and smoking did not protect against AD.

  12. The relationships between age, sex, and the incidence of dementia and Alzheimer disease: a meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 1998-09-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The acceleration of incidence rates for AD and dementia slows down with the increase in age, although we find no evidence of a rate decline.

  13. Smoking and risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease in a population-based cohort study: the Rotterdam Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Lancet (London, England) 1998-06-01 How common it is

    During mean follow-up of 2.1 (range 1.5-3.4) years, 146 incident cases of dementia were detected, of which 105 were Alzheimer's disease.

  14. Incidence and risk of dementia. The Rotterdam Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. American journal of epidemiology 1998-03-01 Long-term cohort studies

    To assess age-, sex-, and subtype-specific incidence rates of dementia and to calculate the risk of dementia, the authors performed a large, community-based, prospective cohort study on dementia as part of the Rotterdam Study.

  15. Lifetime risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. The impact of mortality on risk estimates in the Framingham Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neurology 1997-12-01 How common it is

    We estimated the remaining lifetime risks of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD) and dementia from all causes, based on data from longitudinal population studies.

  16. Dietary fat intake and the risk of incident dementia in the Rotterdam Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1997-11-01 Long-term cohort studies

    A high intake of saturated fat and cholesterol and a low intake of polyunsaturated fatty acids have been related to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease.

  17. Dementia three months after stroke. Baseline frequency and effect of different definitions of dementia in the Helsinki Stroke Aging Memory Study (SAM) cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Stroke 1997-04-01 Vascular contributions

    We found that 451 (92.8%) of the patients were testable, 239 (49.2%) of the patients were women, and the mean age was 71.2 years.

  18. Wine consumption and dementia in the elderly: a prospective community study in the Bordeaux area

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Revue neurologique 1997-04-01 Prevention and risk

    Alcoholism is a possible cause of dementia, mainly through associated nutritional deficiencies and, rarely, through acute direct toxicity.

  19. Apolipoprotein E epsilon4 and the risk of dementia with stroke. A population-based investigation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. JAMA 1997-03-01 Genetics

    The APOE epsilon4 allele is a genetic risk factor for dementia with stroke, including VaD and AD with CVD.

  20. Atrial fibrillation and dementia in a population-based study. The Rotterdam Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Stroke 1997-02-01 Risk factors

    Dementia and subtypes Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia may be related to atrial fibrillation even if no clinical stokes have occurred.

  21. Risk of dementia among persons with diabetes mellitus: a population-based cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. American journal of epidemiology 1997-02-01 Prevention and risk

    It is unclear whether persons with diabetes are at increased risk for dementia, including Alzheimer's disease.

  22. Very old women at highest risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease: incidence data from the Kungsholmen Project, Stockholm

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurology 1997-01-01 How common it is

    (1) The incidence of dementia increases with age, even in the oldest age groups; (2) women have a higher risk of developing dementia than men, especially at very old ages; (3) this pattern is mainly due to the age and gender distribution of Alzheimer's disease, rather than vascular dementia.

  23. Association of diabetes mellitus and dementia: the Rotterdam Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Diabetologia 1996-11-01 Risk factors

    Dementia and non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) are highly prevalent disorders in the elderly.

  24. 15-year longitudinal study of blood pressure and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Lancet (London, England) 1996-04-01 Risk factors

    Previously increased blood pressure may increase the risk for dementia by inducing small-vessel disease and white-matter lesions.

  25. Daily rhythm of serum melatonin in patients with dementia of the degenerate type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Brain research 1996-04-01 Clinical safety

    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.

  26. Apolipoprotein E epsilon4 association with dementia in a population-based study: The Framingham study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 1996-03-01 Risk factors

    Apolipoprotein E type 4 allele (apoE epsilon4) is associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the late-onset familial form and in sporadic cases, but the age-associated risk in a randomly sampled elderly population is not established.

  27. Relationship between falls and stride length variability in senile dementia of the Alzheimer type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Gerontology 1996-01-01 Clinical safety

    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.

  28. AIDS dementia complex and HIV-1 brain infection: clinical-virological correlations

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1995-10-01 Inflammation and the immune system

    To evaluate the presence and distribution of central nervous system infection by human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), we used immunohistochemical methods to map the HIV-1 p24 core protein in the brains of 55 autopsied patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

  29. Incidence and risk factors of vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease in a defined elderly Japanese population: the Hisayama Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 1995-06-01 Getting a diagnosis

    We followed 828 nondemented residents of Hisayama Town, Kyushu, Japan, aged 65 years or older (88.3% of the elderly population) for 7 years starting in 1985 in order to determine the type-specific incidence of dementia and its risk factors in the general Japanese population.

  30. Prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia: association with education. The Rotterdam study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 1995-04-01 How common it is

    The prevalence of dementia increases exponentially with age.

  31. Human immunodeficiency virus encephalitis is the pathological correlate of dementia in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1994-10-01 Caregiving

    While dementia has been observed in approximately one-fourth of terminally ill patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, it has been difficult to attribute this clinical disorder to a single neuropathological substrate.

  32. Risk of dementia after stroke in a hospitalized cohort: results of a longitudinal study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 1994-10-01 Vascular contributions

    Stroke is considered the second most common cause of dementia, but the magnitude of the risk posed by stroke has not been fully clarified.

  33. Estrogen deficiency and risk of Alzheimer's disease in women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. American journal of epidemiology 1994-08-01 How common it is

    The authors explored the possibility that estrogen loss associated with menopause may contribute to the development of Alzheimer's disease by using a case-control study nested within a prospective cohort study.

  34. Risk factors for Alzheimer's disease and dementia: a case-control study based on the MRC elderly hypertension trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 1994-01-01 Disparities

    We surveyed 1,545 subjects--recruited into the UK Medical Research Council elderly hypertension treatment trial between 1982 and 1987--to detect incident cases of dementia, identifying 50 cases of dementia, including 31 cases of probable or possible Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  35. Dementia in AIDS patients: incidence and risk factors. Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 1993-11-01 Getting a diagnosis

    We determined incidence and future projections of dementia after AIDS onset in 492 homosexual men with AIDS in the Baltimore/Los Angeles sites of the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study, 64 of whom developed dementia.

  36. Incidence of dementia and probable Alzheimer's disease in a general population: the Framingham Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 1993-03-01 How common it is

    In a general population sample, we determined incidence of dementia and of probable AD and will use these incident cases for study of precursors and natural history in this elderly cohort, which has been under close surveillance for over 40 years.

  37. Circadian rhythm disorders in sleep-waking and body temperature in elderly patients with dementia and their treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Sleep 1991-12-01 Clinical safety

    Circadian rhythms in elderly patients with severe dementia and behavioral disorders such as wandering, agitation and/or delirium were examined.

  38. Prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias in an elderly urban population: relationship with age, sex, and education

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology 1991-12-01 How common it is

    We studied the prevalence of different types of dementia in an elderly population in Stockholm, Sweden, in relation to age, sex, and education.

  39. Head trauma as a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease: a collaborative re-analysis of case-control studies. EURODEM Risk Factors Research Group

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. International journal of epidemiology 1991-01-01 Risk factors

    A re-analysis of the data from 11 case-control studies was performed to investigate the association between head trauma and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  40. Senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type: an important risk factor for serious falls

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of gerontology 1987-07-01 Clinical safety

    In a longitudinal study of senile dementia and healthy aging, the occurrence of serious falls was examined in participants with senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type (SDAT) (n = 44) and in cognitively healthy elderly control participants (n = 56) over a 4-year period.

  41. Changes in the sleep and waking EEGs of nondemented and demented elderly subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1982-02-01 Risk factors

    Sleep and waking EEGs from 11 healthy nondemented elderly men and from ten inpatients for whom the diagnosis was probable senile dementia of Alzheimer's type (SDAT), were monitored in the subjects' typical home or ward environments or in the sleep laboratory, according to their customary sleep schedules.

  42. Sleep, EEG and mental function changes in senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 1982-01-01 Risk factors

    Sleep, EEG and mental function variables were studied in 44 subjects diagnosed as having probable senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type (SDAT) and 22 controls matched for age and minimal depression.

  43. Role of aluminum in dialysis dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Annals of internal medicine 1978-04-01 Digital health tools

    Between September 1972 and January 1976 an outbreak of dialysis dementia affected 20 patients maintained by long-term hemodialysis.

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