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Newest in this topic

  1. Thirty-seven-year trends in the prevalence, incidence, and prognosis of dementia in a Japanese community: the Hisayama study 2025-12-29
  2. Multimorbidity in dementia: Current perspectives and future challenges 2025-08-01
  3. Association of Dementia Risk With Focal Epilepsy and Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk Factors 2023-05-01

Studies

5 studies carry this tag.

Date range

2020 to 2025

Top journals

  • Neurology 2
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia 1
  • Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 1
  • JAMA neurology 1

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  1. Thirty-seven-year trends in the prevalence, incidence, and prognosis of dementia in a Japanese community: the Hisayama study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2025-12-29 How common it is

    The crude prevalence of dementia significantly increased from 1985 to 2012 (6.7% in 1985, 5.7% in 1992, 7.1% in 1998, 12.5% in 2005, and 17.9% in 2012, p for trend < 0.01), but then decreased significantly from 2012 to 2022 (15.8% in 2017 and 12.1% in 2022; p for trend < 0.01).

  2. Multimorbidity in dementia: Current perspectives and future challenges

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-08-01 Prevention and risk

    Multimorbidity-the co-occurrence of two or more chronic health conditions-affects > 86% of people with dementia.

  3. Association of Dementia Risk With Focal Epilepsy and Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk Factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2023-05-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Epilepsy has been associated with cognitive impairment and potentially dementia in older individuals.

  4. Bi-directional association between epilepsy and dementia: The Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neurology 2020-10-23 Long-term cohort studies

    We analyzed prospectively collected data in the Original and Offspring FHS cohorts.

  5. Dementia in late-onset epilepsy: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2020-10-23 Disparities

    Of 9,033 ARIC participants with sufficient Medicare coverage data (4,980 [55.1%] female, 1993 [22.1%] Black), 671 met the definition of LOE.

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