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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. Mediators of educational differences in dementia risk later in life: evidence from the HUNT study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. BMC Public Health 2025-04-10 Brain tissue and pathology

    Despite a well-known inverse association between education and dementia risk, the mediating mechanisms are not well understood.

  2. Cochlear Implantation Is Associated With Reduced Incidence of Dementia in Severe Hearing Loss

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Ear and Hearing 2025-04-09 How common it is

    The study involved 649 individuals in the CI group, 35,076 in the HA, 16,494 in the NR, and 1,280,788 in the NHL group.

  3. Incidence of Frailty, Dementia, and Disability Among Community‐Living Older Americans According to County‐Level Disadvantage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2025-04-08 Risk factors

    Totally 7499 participants were included in the analysis, representing 40,728,543 community-living older Americans.

  4. Intrinsic factors associated with engagement in healthy lifestyle behaviors for dementia risk reduction in midlife

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Behavior & Socioeconomics of Aging 2025-04-06 Prevention and risk

    LPA identified four intrinsic profiles: Profile 1 had low motivation; Profile 2 had high motivation and self-efficacy, but poor dementia knowledge; Profile 3 had moderate motivation; and Profile 4 had low motivation and high apathy.

  5. Genetic and Lifestyle Risks for Coronary Artery Disease and Long-Term Risk of Incident Dementia Subtypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Circulation 2025-04-04 Prevention and risk

    A total of 8870 cases of all-cause dementia were observed over a median 13.9-year follow-up.

  6. Diet Quality Indices, All-Cause Mortality, Cardiovascular Disease, and Dementia—Outcomes from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of Nutrition 2025-04-03 Prevention trials

    There were 656 deaths, 1585 incidents of CVD and 165 dementia diagnoses during 17.2 years of follow-up.

  7. Between 1990 and 2021, ADOD incidence, prevalence, deaths, and DALYs increased significantly.

  8. Neighborhood disadvantage and the incidence of dementia in US Black women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-04-01 Risk factors

    Age- and education-adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) for ADRD increased as neighborhood disadvantage increased, to 1.42 (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.06-1.91) in the most disadvantaged quintile compared to the least disadvantaged quintile, with a significant linear trend (p = 0.012).

  9. The Impact of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia on Mental Health, Sleep Quality, and Caregiver’s Burden

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2025-04-01 Risk factors

    Caregivers of patients with BPSD reported significantly greater psychological distress, burden, and poorer sleep quality than those caring for patients without BPSD.

  10. Impact of Sleep Disturbance on Dementia in Elderly Individuals: Sleep Disturbances and Dementia Risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. Chronobiology in Medicine 2025-03-31 Risk factors

    Researchers are focusing on modifiable risk factors for dementia, including sleep disturbances such as insomnia and sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), which are known to increase the risk of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VD).

  11. Late-life affective disorders and risk of progression to dementia: retrospective cohort study of patients in secondary care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. The British Journal of Psychiatry 2025-03-31 Brain tissue and pathology

    Some 5695 patients were identified and included in the final analysis.

  12. Tinnitus, noise exposure and the risk of dementia: a prospective cohort study based on UK biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Age and Ageing 2025-03-28 Long-term cohort studies

    During a median follow-up of 12.8 years, 2219 incident dementias were recorded.

  13. Baseline associations of office and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring with cognitive function and dementia prevalence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-03-26 Cognitive tests and assessment

    BackgroundHigh blood pressure has been associated with dementia prevalence and incident.

  14. Determinants of dementia risk among older adults with probable sarcopenia and sarcopenia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. BMC Public Health 2025-03-25 Getting a diagnosis

    Probable sarcopenia subjects with dementia were older (68.5(7.8) years old) as compared to those without dementia (66.0(6.0) years old).

  15. Type 2 diabetes and late-onset Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia: A longitudinal cohort study integrating polygenic risk score

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-03-25 How common it is

    T2DM is one of the strong risk factors of ADRD but genetic T2DM effect does not contribute to ADRD risk.

  16. Heart Failure, Dementia is Associated with Increased Stroke Severity, in-Hospital Mortality and Complications

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. ESC Heart Failure 2025-03-24 Vascular contributions

    Patients in this study were from the China Stroke Center Alliance database.

  17. Trends in Mortality Related to Atrial Fibrillation and Dementia in Older Adults in the United States: A 2000–2020 Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology 2025-03-24 Disparities

    A total of 400 103 AF and dementia-related deaths were recorded between 2000 and 2020.

  18. Reliability and Validity of Self‐Reported Risk Factors for Stroke and Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of the American Heart Association 2025-03-21 Getting a diagnosis

    We used cross-sectional data from the NHANES (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey) from 1999 to 2018 linked to National Death Index records.

  19. Five-Year Changes in 24-Hour Sleep-Wake Activity and Dementia Risk in Oldest Old Women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurology 2025-03-19 Risk factors

    Of 733 participants (mean age 82.5 ± 2.9 years), 164 (22.4%) developed MCI and 93 (12.7%) developed dementia by the follow-up visit.

  20. Changes in dementia risk along with onset age of depression: a longitudinal cohort study of elderly depressed patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. BMC Psychiatry 2025-03-17 Getting a diagnosis

    During follow-up ranging from 1.0 to 22.9 years, 75 patients (29.88%) converted to AD.

  21. Diagnosis of Anosmia in Middle Age, But Not in Older Adulthood, Increases Alzheimer Dementia Risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Clinical and Experimental Otorhinolaryngology 2025-03-17 Brain tissue and pathology

    After adjusting for various factors, the incidence of Alzheimer dementia was significantly higher in the anosmia group compared to the control group (hazard ratio [HR], 1.15; 95% CI, 1.04-1.28).

  22. Magnitude and Time-Course of Dementia Risk in Stroke Survivors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurology 2025-03-17 Vascular contributions

    In the Research Article "Magnitude and Time-Course of Dementia Risk in Stroke Survivors: A Population-Wide Matched Cohort Study" by Joundi et al., 1 the keys for Figure 3, A-D should indicate red for "Stroke," "Ischemic Stroke," "ICH," and "Stroke," respectively.

  23. Associations between Ultrafine Particles and Incident Dementia in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Environmental Science & Technology 2025-03-13 Disparities

    High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide Fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) is linked to dementia risk, but ultrafine particles (UFPs, <100 nm) may be even more toxic due to their distinct physicochemical properties.

  24. Psychiatric Disorders Mediate the Association between Floods and Dementia: A Prospective Cohort Study in the UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Environment & Health 2025-03-13 Long-term cohort studies

    Flooding has become more frequent and severe worldwide, leading to an increased burden of psychiatric disorders (e.g., depression and anxiety).

  25. Estimating the Effects of Hypothetical Ambient PM2.5 Interventions on the Risk of Dementia Using the Parametric g-Formula in the UK Biobank Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Environmental Health Perspectives 2025-03-10 Long-term cohort studies

    , respectively. standards in late life. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP14723.

  26. UK Biobank data demonstrate long-term exposure to floods is a risk factor for incident dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Communications Medicine 2025-03-10 Long-term cohort studies

    In the fully adjusted model, the cumulative odds ratios (OR) are 1.28 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.25–1.31) for any dementia, 1.44 (95% CI: 1.36–1.53) for Alzheimer’s disease and 1.65 (95% CI: 1.48–1.83) for vascular dementia, associated with per unit increase in annual cumulative flooding exposure over lag 0–6 years.

  27. Diabetes status, duration, and risk of dementia among ischemic stroke patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2025-03-08 Risk factors

    Among 118,790 participants (average age 64.26 ± 9.95 years, 48% male), 16.7% developed dementia during an average follow-up of 7.3 ± 2.3 years.

  28. Data‐driven discovery of midlife cardiometabolic profile associated with incident early‐onset and late‐onset dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism 2025-03-06 Brain tissue and pathology

    During a median follow-up of 14.1 years, 279 early-onset dementia cases and 3167 late-onset dementia cases were documented.

  29. Effect of Incident Stroke on Dementia Risk Over 10 Years in a Cohort of Asian American and Non-Latino White Older Adults in California

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2025-03-06 Vascular contributions

    We included 147,986 participants (Chinese [n = 6,034], Filipino [n = 4,649], Japanese [n = 3,099], South Asian [n = 996], non-Latino White [n = 133,208]); the mean baseline age ranged from 69 to 72 years, and the percentage of female participants ranged from 40% to 63% across groups.

  30. Cardiovascular diseases and risk of dementia in the general population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology 2025-03-05 Prevention and risk

    Observationally, CVDs were associated with risk of all incident outcomes in meta-analyses, with hazard ratios up to 7.00 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 6.20, 7.92).

  31. Comparative risk of dementia in diabetic stroke patients prescribed SGLT2 vs. DPP-4 inhibitors: A propensity-matched retrospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases 2025-03-05 Vascular contributions

    After propensity score matching, each group consisted of 15901 patients.

  32. The Effect of Hypertension on Cognitive Decline and Dementia: A Meta- Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 2025-03-05 Risk factors

    Hypertension is known to be a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, but its relationship with cognitive impairment and dementia is an emerging area of study.

  33. Cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome and incidence of dementia among older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-03-04 Getting a diagnosis

    The 2,641 participants had a mean (SD) age of 74 (2.8) years at baseline; 53 % were female, 36 % were of Black race, and had a range of baseline CKM: 3 % Stage 0 (no CKM), 4 % Stage 1 (excess/dysfunctional adiposity), 26 % Stage 2 (metabolic risk factors), 24 % Stage 3 (subclinical CVD and CKD), and 43 % Stage 4 (clinical CVD and CKD).

  34. Long‐Term Exposure to Non‐Steroidal Anti‐Inflammatory Medication in Relation to Dementia Risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2025-03-04 Prevention and risk

    During an average follow-up period of 14.5 years, a total of 9520 (81.1%) participants had used NSAIDs at any given time, and 2091 participants developed dementia.

  35. Blood DNA methylation signature for incident dementia: Evidence from longitudinal cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-03-01 How common it is

    Meta-analysis identified 44 CpGs and 44 differentially methylated regions consistently associated with time to dementia in both cohorts.

  36. Changes in Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Social Support: A Gender‐Disaggregated Analysis of Their Associations With Dementia and Cognitive Decline in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2025-03-01 Risk factors

    At baseline, participants were aged 70-95 years (mean: 75.2 ± 4.3), with 54% being women.

  37. Polygenic score integrating neurodegenerative and vascular risk informs dementia risk stratification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2025-03 Genetics

    Alongside APOE ε4, iPRS-DEM may refine risk stratification for the enrichment of dementia clinical trials and prevention programs.

  38. Social determinants of health and risk of dementia among older men and women: A 12‐year cohort study in Australia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-03-01 How common it is

    Four clusters were identified: least disadvantaged (Class 1: 31.5% men; 30.6% women), most disadvantaged (Class 2: 20.2% men; 19.4% women), high social support with Class 1 features (Class 3: 22.2% men; 24.1% women), and high social support with Class 2 features (Class 4: 26.1% men; 25.7% women).

  39. Social Isolation as a Risk Factor for Dementia: Insights from Animal Model Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 29 out of 100. Current Alzheimer Research 2025-03-01 Risk factors

    Social isolation (SI) and loneliness (perceived social isolation) are considered as risk factors for developing dementia, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), in the elderly population.

  40. Long-Term Exposure to PM 2.5 Constituents, Genetic Susceptibility, and Incident Dementia: A Prospective Cohort Study among 0.2 Million Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Environmental Science & Technology 2025-02-25 Disparities

    Fine particulate matter, known as PM 2.5, is recognized as a risk factor for dementia.

  41. Increased risk of dementia in patients with primary Sjogren’s syndrome: a nationwide population-based cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine 2025-02-21 How common it is

    The incidence of dementia was 0.68 (95% CI 0.64-0.72) cases per 100 person-years in pSS, and it was 0.58 (0.56-0.60) in the controls.

  42. Factors influencing time to support in young-onset dementia: survival analysis of data from the Swedish Dementia Registry (SveDem)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Aging & Mental Health 2025-02-17 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Living with another adult and higher MMSE scores were significantly associated with later access to home help services (p < 0.001) and care facilities (p < 0.001).

  43. Global burden of young-onset dementia, from 1990 to 2021: an age-period-cohort analysis from the global burden of disease study 2021

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Translational Psychiatry 2025-02-17 How common it is

    This study aims to assess the burden of young-onset dementia worldwide, regionally, and nationally during 1990-2021.

  44. Increased risk of dementia associated with herpes simplex virus infections: Evidence from a retrospective cohort study using U.S. electronic health records

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-02-16 How common it is

    There was a significant difference in dementia incidence in the HSV-infected group versus the control.

  45. Association of dietary diversity, genetic susceptibility, and the risk of incident dementia: A prospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-02-13 How common it is

    Over a median follow-up period of 10.44 years, 725 participants developed incident dementia.

  46. Effect of Initiation and Continuous Adherence to ARBs Versus ACEIs on Risk of Adjudicated Mild Cognitive Impairment or Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The Journals of Gerontology Series A 2025-02-13 Disparities

    Of 9,361 SPRINT participants (mean age 67.1 ± 9.5 years, 36.7% female, 58.7% non-Hispanic White), 710 and 1,289 were new users of an ARB or ACEI.

  47. Use of sodium‐glucose cotransporter‐2 inhibitors and risk of dementia: A population‐based cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism 2025-02-10 How common it is

    The final cohort included 47 335 new users of DPP-4i or SGLT-2i. In the primary analysis, the incidence of dementia was 500.2 and 347.5 per 100 000 person-years in users of DPP-4i and SGLT-2i, respectively.

  48. Association of Rheumatoid Arthritis With Progression of Cognitive Impairment and Risk of Mortality in People With Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurology 2025-02-07 Cognitive tests and assessment

    for interaction <0.05). We identified a worse cognitive function and an increased mortality risk in dementia patients with RA compared with non-RA.

  49. Cardiometabolic Trajectories Preceding Dementia in Community-Dwelling Older Individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2025-02-07 Caregiving

    Among 5390 participants (mean [SD] age, 76.9 [4.8] years; 2915 women [54.1%]), there were 2655 individuals (49.3%) with less than 12 years of education.

  50. Dose-response associations of device-measured sleep regularity and duration with incident dementia in 82391 UK adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. BMC Public Health 2025-02-07 Risk factors

    Over a mean follow-up of 7.9 years, 694 incident dementia cases occurred.

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