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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. Trends in Incidence and Prevalence of Dementia Among United States Medicare Beneficiaries, 2014‐2021, by Race, Sex, and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2024-12-01 Risk factors

    We found declining dementia incidence but increasing dementia prevalence in a sample that includes the vast majority of older adults in the United States.

  2. Our findings showed significant associations between hearing and vision impairments and increased risks of all-cause and cause-specific dementia.

  3. Previous studies indicate that increased healthcare access through Medicaid expansion and alleviation of socioeconomic stressors via higher minimum wages improved health outcomes.

  4. Interactive effect of diabetes mellitus and subclinical MRI markers of cerebrovascular disease on cognitive decline and incident dementia: a memory-clinic study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-10-03 Tau biomarkers

    Cognitive impairment is an increasingly recognized comorbidity of diabetes, yet the mechanisms underlying this association remain poorly understood.

  5. Diabetes, Prediabetes, and Brain Aging: The Role of Healthy Lifestyle

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Diabetes care 2024-10-01 Digital health tools

    Diabetes and even prediabetes are associated with accelerated brain aging, especially among men and people with poor cardiometabolic health.

  6. SGLT2 Inhibitor Use and Risk of Dementia and Parkinson Disease Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Neurology 2024-09-18 Prevention and risk

    In this nationwide population-based study, SGLT2i use significantly reduced the risks of neurodegenerative disorders in patients with type 2 diabetes independent of various factors including comorbidities and bioclinical parameters.

  7. Flavonoid-Rich Foods, Dementia Risk, and Interactions With Genetic Risk, Hypertension, and Depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2024-09-03 Prevention and risk

    In this cohort study, high adherence to a flavonoid-rich diet score was associated with a lower risk of dementia, with reductions more pronounced in individuals with a high genetic risk, hypertension, and depressive symptoms.

  8. Risk of Dementia Diagnosis After Injurious Falls in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2024-09-03 Getting a diagnosis

    The mechanism of injury was a fall in 1 228 847 incidents (50.1%).

  9. Blood Pressure, Antihypertensive Use, and Late-Life Alzheimer and Non-Alzheimer Dementia Risk: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Neurology 2024-08-14 Prevention and risk

    Antihypertensive use was associated with decreased AD but not non-AD risk throughout late life.

  10. Associations of social determinants of health with life expectancy and future health risks among individuals with type 2 diabetes: two nationwide cohort studies in the UK and USA

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. The lancet. Healthy longevity 2024-08-05 Long-term cohort studies

    Social determinants of health (SDHs) are the primary drivers of preventable health inequities, and the associations between SDHs and health outcomes among individuals with type 2 diabetes remain unclear.

  11. There Is No Direct Causal Relationship Between Coronary Artery Disease and Alzheimer Disease: A Bidirectional Mendelian Randomization Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of the American Heart Association 2024-07-31 Tau biomarkers

    The association between poor cardiovascular health and cognitive decline as well as dementia progression has been inconsistent across studies.

  12. Factors associated with Alzheimer's Disease Dementia prevalence in the United States: A county-level spatial machine learning analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Not indexed 2024-07-17 Risk factors

    The model outperformed conventional ones, with an out-of-bag R2 of 74.8%.

  13. Plasma IL-6 levels and their association with brain health and dementia risk: A population-based cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Brain, behavior, and immunity 2024-06-17 Long-term cohort studies

    Recent studies have associated immune abnormalities with dementia.

  14. The risk of Alzheimer's disease and cognitive impairment characteristics in eight mental disorders: A UK Biobank observational study and Mendelian randomization analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2024-06-11 Long-term cohort studies

    The cognitive impairment patterns and the association with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in mental disorders remain poorly understood.

  15. Association of the Area Deprivation Index With Dementia Basic Workup and Diagnosis in Central and Western Virginia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurology Clinical Practice 2024-06-10 Risk factors

    The study included 13,431 individuals diagnosed with dementia at UVA (n = 7,152) and Carillion Clinic (n = 6,279).

  16. Home Health Quality among Hospitalized Older Adults with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia: Association with Race/Ethnicity and Dual Eligibility before and during the COVID Pandemic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2024-06-07 Risk factors

    During the COVID-19 pandemic, home health agencies (HHAs) discharges following acute hospitalizations increased.

  17. Incidence of Traumatic Brain Injury in a Longitudinal Cohort of Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2024-05-31 Risk factors

    Among 9239 eligible respondents, 5258 (57.7%) were female and 1210 (9.1%) were Black, 574 (4.7%) were Hispanic, and 7297 (84.4%) were White.

  18. Consumption of Olive Oil and Diet Quality and Risk of Dementia-Related Death

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2024-05-01 Prevention and risk

    Of 92 383 participants, 60 582 (65.6%) were women and the mean (SD) age was 56.4 (8.0) years.

  19. Neighborhood Racial and Ethnic Segregation and the Risk of Dementia in Older Adults Living with Kidney Failure

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2024-04-26 Risk factors

    Key Points Regardless of race and ethnicity, older adults with kidney failure residing in or receiving care at dialysis facilities located in high-segregation neighborhoods were at a 1.63-fold and 1.53-fold higher risk of dementia diagnosis, respectively.

  20. The association between neighborhood deprivation and DNA methylation in an autopsy cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Aging 2024-04-26 Risk factors

    Previous research has found that living in a disadvantaged neighborhood is associated with poor health outcomes.

  21. Post‐acute care transitions during COVID ‐19: Racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic differences in older adults with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2024-03-27 Risk factors

    SNF discharges decreased while home and HHA discharges increased during the pandemic.

  22. Association between Mediterranean diet and dementia and Alzheimer disease: a systematic review with meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research 2024-03-22 Prevention and risk

    Despite the relatively low risk reduction associated with higher adherence to MedDiet among elderly, it should be considered that this population is the most affected.

  23. Statin Initiation and Risk of Incident Alzheimer Disease and Cognitive Decline in Genetically Susceptible Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neurology 2024-03-06 Genetics

    Our findings suggest that statins might be associated with a lower risk of incident AD among individuals with the APOE ε4 allele.

  24. Association Between Years of Education and Amyloid Burden in Patients With Subjective Cognitive Decline, MCI, and Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurology 2024-02-20 Biomarkers

    Across the cohort of 212 individuals with SCD+ (M(Age) = 69.17 years, F 42.45%), 258 individuals with MCI (M(Age) = 72.93, F 43.80%), and 195 individuals with dementia (M(Age) = 74.07, F 48.72%), no main effect of education (ß = 0.52, 95% CI -0.30 to 1.58), but a significant education-by-group interaction on CL values, was found ( p = 0.024) using linear regression modeling.

  25. Sleep Characteristics and Risk of Stroke and Dementia: An Observational and Mendelian Randomization Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Neurology 2024-02-13 Long-term cohort studies

    We found that multiple sleep measures predicted future risk of stroke and dementia, but these associations were attenuated after controlling for cardiovascular risk factors and were absent in MR analyses for Alzheimer disease.

  26. Features of the Physical and Social Neighborhood Environment and Neighborhood-Level Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia in South Carolina

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Environmental Health Perspectives 2024-02-01 Risk factors

    ; 95% CI: 1.01, 1.04). Neighborhood environment features, such as higher air pollution levels, were associated with higher neighborhood ADRD incidence.

  27. Hearing Loss, Hearing Aid Use, and Risk of Dementia in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery 2024-02-01 Prevention and risk

    The results of this cohort study suggest that hearing loss was associated with increased dementia risk, especially among people not using hearing aids, suggesting that hearing aids might prevent or delay the onset and progression of dementia.

  28. Risk Factors for Young-Onset Dementia in the UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. JAMA Neurology 2024-02-01 How common it is

    In this study, several factors, mostly modifiable, were associated with a higher risk of YOD.

  29. Potential Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution on Dementia: A Longitudinal Analysis in American Indians Aged 55 Years and Older

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2024-01-24 Risk factors

    The average PM2.5 levels in the IHS counties were lower than those in all US counties, while the mean O3 levels in the IHS counties were higher than the US counties.

  30. Plasma metabolic profiles predict future dementia and dementia subtypes: a prospective analysis of 274,160 participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2024-01-22 Digital health tools

    We conducted the largest metabolome investigation of dementia to date, for the first time revealed the metabolite importance ranking, and highlighted the contribution of plasma metabolites for dementia prediction.

  31. Social Determinants of Health, Risk and Resilience against Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: The Healthy Brain Initiative

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease Reports 2024-01-09 Risk factors

    Perceived greater access to greenspaces (estimate = 2.83, 95% CI = 1.40–4.26) and greater time in neighborhood greenspaces were associated with greater RI scores (estimate = 2.30, 95% CI = 1.24–3.35).

  32. Geospatial analysis of dementia mortality and its associations with demographic and socioeconomic factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease Reports 2024-01-01 Risk factors

    This study highlights diverse links between dementia mortality and demographic and socioeconomic factors at the county level in the United States.

  33. Disparate Dementia Risk Factors Are Associated with Cognitive Impairment and Rates of Decline in African Americans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Annals of Neurology 2023-12-09 Risk factors

    Hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, obesity, and diabetes were overrepresented in AA participants, but were not associated with cognitive impairment.

  34. Association Between Slow-Wave Sleep Loss and Incident Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. JAMA Neurology 2023-12-01 Prevention and risk

    From the 868 Framingham Heart Study participants who returned for a second PSG, this cohort included 346 participants with a mean age of 69 years (range, 60-87 years); 179 (52%) were female.

  35. S/SDOH can significantly impact health throughout the life course by determining access to health promoting resources and opportunities, which in turn impacts modifiable risk factors (e.g., diet, physical activity, social contact) known to influence Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia (ADRD) risk.

  36. Associations of socioeconomic status and healthy lifestyle with incident early-onset and late-onset dementia: a prospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The lancet. Healthy longevity 2023-12-01 Prevention and risk

    After adjusting for various risk factors, participants with low socioeconomic status (vs high) had increased risk for early-onset dementia (3·38, 2·61-4·37), and overall lifestyle mediated 3·2% (1·8-5·7) of the association.

  37. Cluster‐Derived Psychosocial Phenotypes, Cognitive Outcomes, and AD Plasma Biomarkers of Black and Hispanic/Latino Older Adults Enrolled in HABS‐HD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2023-12-01 Risk factors

    The cluster analysis identified 3 distinct groups: Group 1 was low resource/high distress (n = 215); Group 2 was high resource/low distress (n = 248); and Group 3 was low resource/low distress (n = 353; Figure 1).

  38. Depression is associated with dementia and accelerated cognitive decline in African Americans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2023-12-01 Risk factors

    Modifiable risk factors associated with dementia were common in AA and NHW participants.

  39. The lack of significant results for moderation effects of the targeted epigenetic markers in our pilot study were likely due to the small sample size.

  40. The association between the area deprivation index and dementia in a Veteran Population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2023-12-01 Risk factors

    We found a dose‐dependent association between ADI and dementia The ADI may be a valuable tool for identifying high‐risk communities for dementia intervention.

  41. Association Between Triglycerides and Risk of Dementia in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Prospective Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. Neurology 2023-11-27 Treatments

    Older adults with higher triglyceride levels within the normal to high-normal range had a lower dementia risk and slower cognitive decline over time compared with individuals with lower triglyceride levels.

  42. Spatiotemporal Patterns of Hospitalizations Among Older Adults With Co-Presence of Cancer and Dementia in US Counties: 2013–2018

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Journal of Applied Gerontology 2023-11-14 Risk factors

    We assessed the spatiotemporal patterns of hospitalization with comorbid cancer and dementia.

  43. High intake of ultra-processed food is associated with dementia in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Journal of Neurology 2023-10-13 Prevention and risk

    High UPF consumption is associated with dementia.

  44. Metformin Cessation and Dementia Incidence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2023-10-02 Prevention and risk

    In this study, terminating metformin treatment was associated with increased dementia incidence.

  45. No association between metformin initiation and incident dementia in older adults newly diagnosed with diabetes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Journal of Internal Medicine 2023-09-25 Prevention and risk

    Early metformin initiation was not associated with incident dementia in older adults newly diagnosed with diabetes.

  46. Association between metabolic syndrome and risk of incident dementia in UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-09-07 Long-term cohort studies

    The association between metabolic syndrome (MetS) and incident dementia remains inconclusive.

  47. Dementia Risk and Disadvantaged Neighborhoods

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2023-09-01 Disparities

    Among the 1 637 484 Veterans Health Administration patients, the mean (SD) age was 68.6 (7.7) years, and 1 604 677 (98.0%) were men.

  48. Sedentary Behavior and Incident Dementia Among Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. JAMA 2023-09-01 Digital health tools

    During this time, 414 individuals were diagnosed with incident all-cause dementia.

  49. Factors associated with medication adherence in older adults: The atherosclerosis risk in communities study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2023-08-02 Risk factors

    We examined factors associated with self-reported medication nonadherence in well-characterized community-based cohort of older adults.

  50. Association of pro-inflammatory diet with increased risk of all-cause dementia and Alzheimer's dementia: a prospective study of 166,377 UK Biobank participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. BMC medicine 2023-07-21 Long-term cohort studies

    Increasing evidence suggests an association between pro-inflammatory diets and cognitive function.

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