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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

1,139 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 27

362 journals in all.

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  1. Insulin resistance as a key link for the increased risk of cognitive impairment in the metabolic syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Experimental & molecular medicine 2015-03-13 Risk factors

    Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of cardiovascular risk factors that includes obesity, diabetes, and dyslipidemia.

  2. Cumulative use of strong anticholinergics and incident dementia: a prospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. JAMA internal medicine 2015-03-01 How common it is

    The most common anticholinergic classes used were tricyclic antidepressants, first-generation antihistamines, and bladder antimuscarinics.

  3. Low cardiac index is associated with incident dementia and Alzheimer disease: the Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Circulation 2015-02-19 Long-term cohort studies

    Cross-sectional epidemiological and clinical research suggests that lower cardiac index is associated with abnormal brain aging, including smaller brain volumes, increased white matter hyperintensities, and worse cognitive performances.

  4. Age-related hearing impairment-a risk factor and frailty marker for dementia and AD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Nature reviews. Neurology 2015-02-17 Prevention and risk

    Age-related hearing impairment (ARHI, also known as presbycusis) is potentially a reversible risk factor for dementia and Alzheimer disease (AD).

  5. Subclinical cardiac dysfunction increases the risk of stroke and dementia: the Rotterdam Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2015-01-28 Long-term cohort studies

    Additionally, we investigated the relation between cardiac function and MRI markers of subclinical cerebrovascular disease.

  6. Risk factors for sleep disturbances in older adults: Evidence from prospective studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Sleep medicine reviews 2015-01-15 Risk factors

    No systematic review of epidemiological evidence has examined risk factors for sleep disturbances among older adults.

  7. Tight glycemic control and use of hypoglycemic medications in older veterans with type 2 diabetes and comorbid dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Diabetes care 2015-01-15 Disparities

    Older adults with diabetes and dementia are at increased risk for hypoglycemia and other adverse events associated with tight glycemic control and are unlikely to experience long-term benefits.

  8. Mediterranean Diet and Risk of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2015-01-01 Prevention trials

    Dementia is a major global health challenge, as its burden on society will increase with population aging.

  9. The mechanical cause of age-related dementia (Alzheimer's disease): the brain is destroyed by the pulse

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2015-01-01 Disparities

    This review traces evidence that age-related dementia (Alzheimer's disease) results from the destructive impact of the pulse on cerebral vasculature.

  10. Olfactory deficits predict cognitive decline and Alzheimer dementia in an urban community

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neurology 2014-12-03 Prevention and risk

    The findings support the cross-cultural use of a relatively inexpensive odor identification test as an early biomarker of cognitive decline and AD dementia.

  11. Dementia risk after traumatic brain injury vs nonbrain trauma: the role of age and severity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2014-12-01 Prevention and risk

    Of these, 4361 (8.4%) developed dementia compared with 6610 patients with NTT (5.9%) (P Conclusions and relevance Among patients evaluated in the ED or inpatient settings, those with moderate to severe TBI at 55 years or older or mild TBI at 65 years or older had an increased risk of developing dementia.

  12. Diabetes in midlife and cognitive change over 20 years: a cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Annals of internal medicine 2014-12-01 Prevention and risk

    Diabetes prevention and glucose control in midlife may protect against late-life cognitive decline.

  13. Incidence of and risk factors for Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment in Korean elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2014-11-11 Disparities

    Strategies to control modifiable risk factors should be implemented to decrease the incidence of AD.

  14. Impact of sleep on the risk of cognitive decline and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Current opinion in psychiatry 2014-11-01 Prevention and risk

    Trouble falling or staying asleep, poor sleep quality, and short or long sleep duration are gaining attention as potential risk factors for cognitive decline and dementia, including Alzheimer's disease.

  15. Risk of dementia in elderly patients with the use of proton pump inhibitors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience 2014-10-24 Prevention and risk

    Drugs that modify the risk of dementia in the elderly are of potential interest for dementia prevention.

  16. Midlife hypertension and 20-year cognitive change: the atherosclerosis risk in communities neurocognitive study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2014-10-01 How common it is

    Midlife hypertension and elevated midlife but not late-life systolic BP was associated with more cognitive decline during the 20 years of the study.

  17. Risk of dementia and mild cognitive impairment in older people with subjective memory complaints: meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 80 out of 100. Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica 2014-09-13 How common it is

    Older people with SMC but no objective complaints are twice as likely to develop dementia as individuals without SMC.

  18. Adipokines: a link between obesity and dementia?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2014-09-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Being overweight or obese, as measured with body-mass index or central adiposity (waist circumference), and the trajectory of body-mass index over the life course have been associated with brain atrophy, white matter changes, disturbances of blood-brain barrier integrity, and risk of all-cause late-onset dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

  19. Sensor-derived physical activity parameters can predict future falls in people with dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Gerontology 2014-08-28 Digital health tools

    Surprisingly, fallers and non-fallers did not differ on any conventional assessment (p = 0.069-0.991), except for 'previous faller' (p = 0.006).

  20. Vitamin D and the risk of dementia and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2014-08-06 Vascular contributions

    Our results confirm that vitamin D deficiency is associated with a substantially increased risk of all-cause dementia and Alzheimer disease.

  21. Traumatic brain injury and risk of dementia in older veterans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. Neurology 2014-07-22 Prevention and risk

    In a study of nearly 190,000 older US military veterans, those who had experienced a traumatic brain injury were about 57% more likely to develop dementia over the next 9 years than veterans without a brain injury history.

  22. Motoric cognitive risk syndrome: multicountry prevalence and dementia risk

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Neurology 2014-07-16 How common it is

    MCR is common in older adults, and is a strong and early risk factor for cognitive decline.

  23. Elevated risk of type 2 diabetes for development of Alzheimer disease: a key role for oxidative stress in brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Biochimica et biophysica acta 2014-06-17 Risk factors

    Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia among the elderly and is characterized by progressive loss of memory and cognition.

  24. Relationship of hearing loss and dementia: a prospective, population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Otology & neurotology : official publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology 2014-06-01 Prevention and risk

    At baseline, 4,463 subjects were without dementia, 836 of whom had HL.

  25. Depression and dementia: cause, consequence or coincidence?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Maturitas 2014-05-29 How common it is

    The relationship between depression and dementia is complex and still not well understood.

  26. Insulin-like growth factor-1 and risk of Alzheimer dementia and brain atrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurology 2014-04-04 Genetics

    Mean IGF-1 levels were 144 ± 60 μg/L in generation 1 and 114 ± 37 μg/L in generation 2.

  27. Anxiety is not associated with the risk of dementia or cognitive decline: the Rotterdam Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2014-03-15 Long-term cohort studies

    We studied whether anxiety symptoms and anxiety disorders are associated with the risk of dementia and cognition.

  28. Oral glycotoxins are a modifiable cause of dementia and the metabolic syndrome in mice and humans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2014-02-24 Prevention and risk

    Age-associated dementia and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are currently epidemic.

  29. Delirium superimposed on dementia strongly predicts worse outcomes in older rehabilitation inpatients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2014-02-22 Clinical safety

    DSD is a strong predictor of functional dependence, institutionalization, and mortality in older patients admitted to a rehabilitation setting, suggesting that strategies to detect DSD routinely in practice should be developed and DSD should be included in prognostic models of health care.

  30. Chronic kidney disease is associated with dementia independent of cerebral small-vessel disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurology 2014-02-19 Genetics

    CKD is independently related to the risk of all-cause dementia in patients with vascular risk factors.

  31. Depressive symptoms predict incident dementia during short- but not long-term follow-up period

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-02-12 Long-term cohort studies

    Whether depression is a long-term risk factor for dementia or represents a dementia prodrome is unclear.

  32. Gender and incidence of dementia in the Framingham Heart Study from mid-adult life

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014-01-10 How common it is

    Selective survival of men with a healthier cardiovascular risk profile and hence lower propensity to dementia might partly explain the higher LTR of dementia/AD in women.

  33. Heart diseases and long-term risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease: a population-based CAIDE study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2014-01-01 Prevention and risk

    Late-life heart diseases increase the subsequent risk of dementia and AD.

  34. Long-term metformin usage and cognitive function among older adults with diabetes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2014-01-01 Risk factors

    Evidence strongly supports the important role of insulin resistance in cognitive decline and dementia and suggests that insulin sensitizers may protect against cognitive decline in diabetic and pre-diabetic individuals.

  35. Midlife and late-life body mass index and late-life dementia: results from a prospective population-based cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2014-01-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Obesity has been consistently associated with dementia.

  36. Mortality risk after dementia diagnosis by dementia type and underlying factors: a cohort of 15,209 patients based on the Swedish Dementia Registry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2014-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Knowledge on survival in dementia is crucial for patients and public health planning.

  37. Serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor and the risk for dementia: the Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2014-01-01 Prevention and risk

    Some prior studies showed lower circulating BDNF in persons with Alzheimer disease (AD) compared with control participants; however, it remains uncertain whether reduced levels precede dementia onset.

  38. Effect of socioeconomic disparities on incidence of dementia among biracial older adults: prospective study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2013-12-19 Prevention and risk

    Over follow-up, 449 (18.3%) participants developed dementia.

  39. Racial/ethnic differences in dementia risk among older type 2 diabetic patients: the diabetes and aging study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Diabetes care 2013-11-22 Disparities

    Among type 2 diabetic patients followed for 10 years, African Americans and Native Americans had a 40-60% greater risk of dementia compared with Asians, and risk was intermediate for non-Hispanic whites and Latinos.

  40. TDP-43 pathology, cognitive decline, and dementia in old age

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2013-11-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Cognitive decline is a leading cause of disability and death in old age but its neurobiological bases are not well understood.

  41. Dementia and cognitive decline in type 2 diabetes and prediabetic stages: towards targeted interventions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology 2013-10-18 Risk factors

    Type 2 diabetes is associated with dementia, and also with more slight cognitive decrements.

  42. Midlife risk score for the prediction of dementia four decades later

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2013-09-10 Prevention and risk

    A combination of modifiable vascular risk factors in midlife is highly predictive of the likelihood of dementia decades later.

  43. Delirium superimposed on dementia is associated with prolonged length of stay and poor outcomes in hospitalized older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Journal of hospital medicine 2013-08-19 Clinical safety

    Delirium prolongs hospitalization for persons with dementia.

  44. Association between frailty and dementia: a population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Gerontology 2013-08-17 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Frailty is commonly considered as a syndrome with several symptoms, including weight loss, exhaustion, weakness, slow walking speed and physical inactivity.

  45. Glucose levels and risk of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. The New England journal of medicine 2013-08-01 Prevention and risk

    Our results suggest that higher glucose levels may be a risk factor for dementia, even among persons without diabetes.

  46. Anemia and risk of dementia in older adults: findings from the Health ABC study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2013-07-31 Disparities

    Among older adults, anemia is associated with an increased risk of developing dementia.

  47. Risk factors for dementia with Lewy bodies: a case-control study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2013-07-26 Genetics

    Smoking and education, which have opposing risk effects on AD and PD, are not risk factors for DLB; however, depression and low caffeine intake, both risk factors for AD and PD, increase risk of DLB more strongly than in either.

  48. Association between hypoglycemia and dementia in a biracial cohort of older adults with diabetes mellitus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. JAMA internal medicine 2013-07-01 Getting a diagnosis

    During the 12-year follow-up period, 61 participants (7.8%) had a reported hypoglycemic event, and 148 (18.9%) developed dementia.

  49. O4–04–05: Geographical variation in dementia prevalence in Swedish twins: Using Bayesian inference to separate genetic and environmental effects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2013-07-01 Risk factors

    There is evidence of geographical variation in dementia[1], not all of which can be ascribed to genetic factors[2].

  50. Sleep Fragmentation and the Risk of Incident Alzheimer's Disease and Cognitive Decline in Older Persons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Sleep 2013-07-01 How common it is

    Sleep fragmentation in older adults is associated with incident AD and the rate of cognitive decline.

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