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  1. Co-morbidity associated with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias 2002 Risk factors

    After adjusting for age, race, and gender, persons with Alzheimer's disease and dementia associated with medical conditions were less likely to be diagnosed with hypertension, diabetes, congestive heart failure, and atrial fibrillation than were controls.

  2. Normalization of cerebral volumes by use of intracranial volume: implications for longitudinal quantitative MR imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. PubMed Central 2001-09-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The TIV normalization of cross-sectional brain volumes significantly reduced interindividual variation; the coefficient of variation (CV) was reduced from 10.0% to 6.0% in controls (P <.001).

  3. Hippocampal and cortical atrophy predict dementia in subcortical ischemic vascular disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology 2000-12-12 Brain scans and imaging

    Among the three lacune groups, severity of cognitive impairment correlated with atrophy of the hippocampus and cortical gray matter, but not with any lacune measure.

  4. Visual impairment and cognitive dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of general internal medicine 1991-03-01 Risk factors

    Visual impairment is associated with both an increased risk and an increased clinical severity of Alzheimer's disease, but the increased risk may not be consistent with a progressive dose-response relationship.

  5. Remote Digital Cognitive Assessment in a Trial-Ready Alzheimer’s Cohort: A Scalable Approach for Early Intervention Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2026-09-24 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Average adherence was 41%. Despite this, remote measures demonstrated excellent reliability (ICCs > 0.90 after 10 sessions) and strong construct validity, with tasks loading onto memory, attention, and executive function domains.

  6. Predictive Models for Cognitive Decline Assessment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. F1000Res 2026-07-22 Long-term cohort studies

    This study contributes to the healthcare field by demonstrating the potential of providing a fast, transparent, and affordable assessment system that is accessible to low-income populations and clinics with limited budget.

  7. Linking Modifiable Risk Factors to Vascular and Neurodegenerative Brain Changes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. GeroScience 2026-03-02 Risk factors

    Findingss: upport multidomain prevention strategies targeting clustered modifiable risks.

  8. Peruvian validation and standardization of the TabCAT-brain health assessment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Frontiers in public health 2025-08-29 Cognitive tests and assessment

    By incorporating sex, place of residence, age, and years of education as covariates, the TabCAT-BHA demonstrated greater accuracy in detecting cognitive impairment (AUC = 75.3%) compared to the MMSE (AUC = 66.4%) and RUDAS (AUC = 71.4%).

  9. The digitalization of psychopathology: 'TV sign' and 'Smartphone sign' as red flags for dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurocase 2025-02-21 Cognitive tests and assessment

    This case series elucidates pathological signs for diagnosis in two patients with Dementia.

  10. Automated Volumetric Software in Dementia: Help or Hindrance to the Neuroradiologist?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2024-11-07 Brain scans and imaging

    There was no statistically significant effect of the report on overall correct diagnoses.

  11. Relationship between hearing impairment and dementia and cognitive function: a Mendelian randomization study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-10-09 Risk factors

    Genetically determined CSHL was associated with an elevated risk of DLB (odds ratio [OR] 1.69; 95% CI 1.08 to 2.63; P = 0.021) and FTD (OR 1.66; 1.04 to 2.67; P = 0.035), but not AD (P = 0.958).

  12. Digital cognitive assessments as low-burden markers for predicting future cognitive decline and tau accumulation across the Alzheimer's spectrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-09-06 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Digital assessments are effective at identifying at-risk individuals, supporting their utility as low-burden tools for early AD detection and monitoring.

  13. Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2024-03-14 How common it is

    As the leading cause of overall disease burden in the world, with increasing global DALY counts, effective prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation strategies for disorders affecting the nervous system are needed.

  14. Resting-State Functional Connectivity Difference in Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment Using Threshold-Free Cluster Enhancement

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) 2023-09-28 Brain scans and imaging

    The disruption of functional connectivity is one of the early events that occurs in the brains of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients.

  15. Functional and structural connectivity in the Papez circuit in different stages of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology 2023-06-30 Brain scans and imaging

    The FC between the retrosplenial (RSC) and parahippocampal cortices (PHC) was the earliest affected FC, while a manifest SC change in the ventral cingulum and fornix was observed in the later ADD stage.

  16. Hearing loss and its link to cognitive impairment and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Frontiers in dementia 2023-06-15 Risk factors

    Hearing loss is an important risk factor for the development of dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  17. Speech biomarkers of risk factors for vascular dementia in people with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Frontiers in human neuroscience 2022-12-15 Risk factors

    We found that some speech parameters of frequencies and syllabic rhythm vary due to these pathologies.

  18. Validation of a novel computerized cognitive function test for the rapid detection of mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. BMC neurology 2022-12-07 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The median (interquartile range) test time for MARC was 401 (350-453) s. Total MARC scores were significantly worse in the MCI and ADD groups than in the NDC group (p < 0.05 and p < 0.01, respectively).

  19. Functional Connectivity Dynamics Altered of the Resting Brain in Subjective Cognitive Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-06-24 Brain scans and imaging

    When comparing SCD (N = 40) with NC (N = 45), mdALFFmean decreased at right inferior parietal lobule (IPL) of the frontoparietal network (FPN).

  20. High lifelong cognitive reserve prolongs disability-free survival: The role of cognitive function

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-03-28 Risk factors

    CR score was dose-dependently associated with disability/death (hazard ratio [HR] 0.96, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.93-0.99).

  21. Identifying health conditions associated with Alzheimer's disease up to 15 years before diagnosis: an agnostic study of French and British health records

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The Lancet. Digital health 2022-03-01 Risk factors

    In both the British and French studies, ten health conditions were significantly positively associated with increased Alzheimer's disease risk, in a window of exposure from 2-10 years before Alzheimer's disease diagnosis, comprising major depressive disorder (UK OR 1·34, 95% CI 1·23-1·46; France OR 1·73, 1·57-1·91), anxiety (UK OR 1·36, 1·25-1·47; France OR 1·50, 1·36-1·65), reaction to severe stress and adjustment disorders (UK OR 1·40, 1·24-1·59; France OR 1·83, 1·55-2·15), hearing loss (UK OR 1·19, 1·11-1·28; France OR 1·51, 1·21-1·89), constipation (UK OR 1·31, 1·22-1·41; France OR 1·59, 1·44-1·75), spondylosis (UK OR 1·26, 1·14-1·39; France OR 1·62, 1·44-1·81), abnormal weight loss (UK OR 1·47, 1·33-1·63; France OR 1·88, 1·56-2·26), malaise and fatigue (UK OR 1·23, 1·14-1·32; France OR 1·59, 1·46-1·73), memory loss (UK OR 7·63, 6·65-8·76; France OR 4·41, 3·07-6·34), and syncope and collapse (UK OR 1·23, 1·10-1·37; France OR 1·57, 1·26-1·96).

  22. Verbal Fluency in Metabolic Syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain sciences 2022-02-12 Risk factors

    Metabolic syndrome (MetS) or otherwise insulin resistance (IR) is described as a cluster of several commonly occurring disorders, including abdominal obesity; lipids disorders, such as hypertriglyceridemia; and low levels of high-density-lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), hypertension (≥130/85 mmHg), and carbohydrates disorders, such as impaired fasting glucose or diabetes mellitus type 2.

  23. Characteristics of Drawing Process Differentiate Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia with Lewy Bodies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Reduced speed and reduced smoothness in speed and pressure were observed particularly in the LBD group, while increased pauses and total durations were observed in both the AD and LBD groups.

  24. Validity of the Web-Based, Self-Directed, NeuroCognitive Performance Test in Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Cognitive tests and assessment

    In MCI subjects, the NCPT composite is significantly correlated with both a composite measure of established tests (r = 0.78, p < 0.0001) as well as with the ADAS-Cog (r = -0.55, p < 0.0001).

  25. Alpha desynchronization during Stroop test unmasks cognitively healthy individuals with abnormal CSF Amyloid/Tau

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2021-12-05 Tau biomarkers

    Synaptic dysfunctions precede cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease by decades, affect executive functions, and can be detected by quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG).

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