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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

1,140 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. Promoting Healthy Aging: Public Health as a Leader for Reducing Dementia Risk

    ⚠ Report — not peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. Public Policy & Aging Report 2023-07-15 Risk factors

    It is estimated that for people aged 65 years and older, the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease was nearly double for women compared with men (Weinstein et al., 2012).

  2. Association Between Acute Myocardial Infarction and Cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2023-07-01 Disparities

    This cohort study using pooled data from 6 cohort studies found that incident MI was not associated with a decrease in global cognition, memory, or executive function at the time of the event compared with no MI but was associated with faster declines in global cognition, memory, and executive function over time.

  3. Serum NfL and GFAP are associated with incident dementia and dementia mortality in older adults: The cardiovascular health study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2023-07-01 Biomarkers

    Circulating NfL and GFAP may, independently and jointly, provide useful clinical insight regarding dementia risk and prognosis.

  4. "Life's Essential 8" Cardiovascular Health and Dementia Risk, Cognition, and Neuroimaging Markers of Brain Health

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2023-06-24 Long-term cohort studies

    Setting and participants A total of 316,669 participants [mean (SD) age, 56.3 (8.1) years] without prior cardiovascular disease or dementia from the UK Biobank study at baseline survey (2006-2010) were enrolled.

  5. Association of earlier age at menopause with risk of incident dementia, brain structural indices and the potential mediators: a prospective community-based cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. EClinicalMedicine 2023-06-08 Long-term cohort studies

    In addition, the underlying mechanism and driven mediators are largely unknown.

  6. In the context of a deprived neighborhood, does self‐identified race cause dementia?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2023-06-01 Risk factors

    A higher degree of neighborhood disadvantage may contribute to the excess risk of MCI or dementia found among AA.

  7. The relationship between social determinants of health and hospitalization among American Indian and Alaska native older adults with and without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2023-06-01 Risk factors

    Understanding and addressing SDOH associated with hospitalizations among AI/AN older adults, with and without dementia, may aid in the development of strategies that reduce preventable hospitalization.

  8. Association of Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Medial Temporal Lobe Atrophy in Cognitively Unimpaired Amyloid-Positive Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Neurology 2023-05-31 Treatments

    Overall, we showed that SDB was associated with MTL atrophy in cognitively asymptomatic older adults engaged in the Alzheimer continuum, which may increase the risk of developing memory impairment over time.

  9. Associations of Midlife Dietary Patterns with Incident Dementia and Brain Structure: Findings from the UK Biobank Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. The American journal of clinical nutrition 2023-05-05 Prevention trials

    Greater adherence to hPDI, MDS, RFS, and MIND was individually associated with larger brain volumes in specific regions.

  10. Association between chronic pain and risk of incident dementia: findings from a prospective cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. BMC medicine 2023-05-04 Long-term cohort studies

    Chronic musculoskeletal pain has been linked to dementia; however, chronic pain typically occurs in multiple sites; therefore, this study was to investigate whether greater number of chronic pain sites is associated with a higher risk of dementia and its subtypes.

  11. 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.

  12. Quality of plant-based diet and the risk of dementia and depression among middle-aged and older population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Age and ageing 2023-05-01 Long-term cohort studies

    However, not all plant-based foods are necessarily beneficial for dementia or depression.

  13. Educational Attainment and Dementia: Mediation by Mid-Life Vascular Risk Factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Annals of Neurology 2023-04-27 Prevention and risk

    A substantial proportion of the relationship between education and dementia was mediated through mid-life vascular risk factors.

  14. Associations of blood cell indices and anemia with risk of incident dementia: A prospective cohort study of 313,448 participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-04-26 Long-term cohort studies

    Low hemoglobin and anemia are associated with cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  15. Does the Area Deprivation Index (ADI) influence dementia evaluation and diagnosis in Virginia? (S29.004)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurology 2023-04-25 Risk factors

    14,292 patients were diagnosed with dementia over 2018–2021 (age 76.5+/−10.3 years; 53.1% female), with 96.3% linked to a census-tract-level ADI.

  16. Association of the Informant-Reported Memory Decline With Cognitive and Brain Deterioration Through the Alzheimer Clinical Continuum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurology 2023-04-21 Biomarkers

    Our findings suggest that the informant report is particularly relevant in patients with MCI where it strongly relates to higher amyloid-PET, indicative of impairment due to AD.

  17. Association between hearing aid use and all-cause and cause-specific dementia: an analysis of the UK Biobank cohort

    ⚠ Retracted — do not rely on it alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. The Lancet. Public health 2023-04-14 Long-term cohort studies

    Dementia and hearing loss are both highly prevalent conditions among older adults.

  18. Identifying modifiable factors and their joint effect on dementia risk in the UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Nature human behaviour 2023-04-06 Long-term cohort studies

    Previous hypothesis-driven research has identified many risk factors linked to dementia.

  19. The Relationship of Omega-3 Fatty Acids with Dementia and Cognitive Decline: Evidence from Prospective Cohort Studies of Supplementation, Dietary Intake, and Blood Markers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2023-04-05 Prevention and risk

    Previous data have linked omega-3 fatty acids with risk of dementia.

  20. Association of Cardiovascular Health With Life Expectancy Free of Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, Cancer, and Dementia in UK Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. JAMA internal medicine 2023-04-01 Long-term cohort studies

    The average life expectancy has increased substantially in the past few decades in most industrialized countries; however, not all of the increased life expectancy is being spent in optimal health, especially among individuals with low socioeconomic status.

  21. Spatial disparity and factors associated with dementia mortality: A cross-sectional study in Zhejiang Province, China

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 32 out of 100. Frontiers in Public Health 2023-03-24 Risk factors

    Thirty thousand three hundred and ninety-eight deaths attributable to dementia as the underlying or related cause (multiple causes) were reported during 2015-2019.

  22. Association of Bone Mineral Density and Dementia: The Rotterdam Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Neurology 2023-03-22 Long-term cohort studies

    Low bone mineral density (BMD) and dementia commonly co-occur in older individuals, with bone loss accelerating in patients with dementia due to physical inactivity and poor nutrition.

  23. Racial, ethnic and neighborhood socioeconomic differences in incidence of dementia: A regional retrospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2023-03-16 Risk factors

    Increasing neighborhood disadvantage was associated with increased risk of EHR-documented dementia diagnosis or dementia-related death (most vs. least disadvantaged ADI quintile HR = 1.76, 95% confidence interval = 1.69-1.84) after adjusting for age and sex.

  24. Mediterranean diet adherence is associated with lower dementia risk, independent of genetic predisposition: findings from the UK Biobank prospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. BMC Medicine 2023-03-14 Prevention and risk

    Higher adherence to a MedDiet was associated with lower dementia risk, independent of genetic risk, underlining the importance of diet in dementia prevention interventions.

  25. Socioeconomic Deprivation, Genetic Risk, and Incident Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 68 out of 100. American journal of preventive medicine 2023-03-06 Long-term cohort studies

    Socioeconomic factors and genetic predisposition are established risk factors for dementia.

  26. Circadian Rest-Activity Rhythms, Delirium Risk, and Progression to Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2023-03-03 Long-term cohort studies

    Delirium is a complex neurocognitive syndrome suspected to be bidirectionally linked to dementia.

  27. Elevated dementia risk, cognitive decline, and hippocampal atrophy in multisite chronic pain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2023-02-21 Long-term cohort studies

    Numerous studies have investigated the impacts of common types of chronic pain (CP) on patients' cognitive function and observed that CP was associated with later dementia.

  28. Lung function and risk of incident dementia: A prospective cohort study of 431,834 individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Brain, behavior, and immunity 2023-02-14 Long-term cohort studies

    This study aimed to investigate the longitudinal association between decreased lung function and cognitive brain health and to explore underlying biological and brain structural mechanisms.

  29. Changes in Alcohol Consumption and Risk of Dementia in a Nationwide Cohort in South Korea

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2023-02-01 Prevention and risk

    In this cohort study of a Korean population, decreased risk of dementia was associated with maintaining mild to moderate alcohol consumption, reducing alcohol consumption from a heavy to a moderate level, and the initiation of mild alcohol consumption, suggesting that the threshold of alcohol consumption for dementia risk reduction is low.

  30. A meta-analysis investigating the relationship between inflammation in autoimmune disease, elevated CRP, and the risk of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Frontiers in immunology 2023-01-27 Inflammation and the immune system

    Alzheimer's Disease (AD) represents the most common type of dementia and is becoming a steadily increasing challenge for health systems globally.

  31. Age- and sex-specific modifiable risk factor profiles of dementia: evidence from the UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. European journal of epidemiology 2023-01-03 Long-term cohort studies

    Dementia constitutes a worldwide concern.

  32. Socioeconomic Status and Risks of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of 39 Prospective Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease 2023-01-01 Caregiving

    Low SES substantially increased the risk of dementia and cognitive dysfunction, suggesting that public health strategies could reduce the dementia burden by reducing social inequalities.

  33. Incident dementia and long-term exposure to constituents of fine particle air pollution: A national cohort study in the United States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2022-12-27 Disparities

    Growing evidence suggests that fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) likely increases the risks of dementia, yet little is known about the relative contributions of different constituents.

  34. African ancestry GWAS of dementia in a large military cohort identifies significant risk loci

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 75 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2022-12-22 Disparities

    While genome wide association studies (GWASs) of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) in European (EUR) ancestry cohorts have identified approximately 83 potentially independent AD risk loci, progress in non-European populations has lagged.

  35. MIND Dietary Pattern and Its Association with Cognition and Incident Dementia in the UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Nutrients 2022-12-21 Long-term cohort studies

    A high adherence to the Mediterranean-Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension Diet Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay (MIND) has been associated with better cognition and a lower risk of dementia in some but not all studies.

  36. Association Between Alcohol Use Disorders and Dementia in 262,703 Dementia-free Finnish Adults: Is Cardiovascular Disease a Mediator?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2022-12-17 Health systems and care delivery

    The possible mediating role of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the relationship between alcohol use disorders (AUD) and the risk of early-onset (<age 65) and late-onset (≥age 65) dementia lacks formal investigation.

  37. Association between multimorbidity status and incident dementia: a prospective cohort study of 245,483 participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2022-12-07 Long-term cohort studies

    Multimorbidity (the presence of two or more long-term conditions [LTCs]) was suggested to exacerbate the neuronal injuries.

  38. Air pollution and dementia using longitudinal electronic health record data from the Indian Health Service

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2022-12-01 Risk factors

    Our study suggests that exposure to O3 is associated with the higher risk of dementia in American Indians.

  39. Neighborhood Deprivation and Mortality Risk among Medicare Beneficiaries with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2022-12-01 Risk factors

    Our findings suggest neighborhood deprivation is an important risk factor of mortality among older adults with ADRD while accounting for individuals’ demographic and clinical characteristics.

  40. Association between hearing loss and development of dementia using formal behavioural audiometric testing within the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging (MCSA): a prospective population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. The lancet. Healthy longevity 2022-11-18 Digital health tools

    After adjusting for sex, years of education, smoking status, diabetes, hypertension, apolipoprotein E ε4 carriership, and hearing rehabilitation (defined as hearing aid or cochlear implant use), neither PTA (hazard ratio [HR] per 10-decibels hearing level increase of 0·99 (95% CI 0·89-1·12; p=0·91) nor WRS (HR per 10% decrease of 0·98, 95% CI 0·89-1 ·07; p=0·65) was significantly associated with the development of dementia.

  41. Replacement of leisure-time sedentary behavior with various physical activities and the risk of dementia incidence and mortality: A prospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of sport and health science 2022-11-13 Long-term cohort studies

    Whether or not there is targeted pharmacotherapy for dementia, an active and healthy lifestyle that includes physical activity (PA) may be a better option than medication for preventing dementia.

  42. Risk factors for dementia in Brazil: Differences by region and race

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-11-03 Disparities

    Brazil's potential for dementia prevention is higher than in HIC.

  43. Is dietary choline intake related to dementia and Alzheimer's disease risks? Results from the Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. The American journal of clinical nutrition 2022-11-01 Long-term cohort studies

    The positive association of choline for cognition has been reported in both animal and human studies, yet the associations of choline with the risks of incident dementia or Alzheimer's disease (AD) in humans is unclear.

  44. Association Between Dietary Habits in Midlife With Dementia Incidence Over a 20-Year Period

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurology 2022-10-12 Prevention trials

    The aim of this study was to investigate whether adherence to conventional dietary recommendations or to a modified Mediterranean diet are associated with a subsequent lower risk of developing all-cause dementia, Alzheimer disease (AD), vascular dementia (VaD), or with future accumulation of AD-related β-amyloid (Aβ) pathology.

  45. Serum lipid traits and the risk of dementia: A cohort study of 254,575 women and 214,891 men in the UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. EClinicalMedicine 2022-10-06 Long-term cohort studies

    Serum lipid traits are associated with cardiovascular disease, but uncertainty remains regarding their associations with dementia.

  46. Association of Daily Step Count and Intensity With Incident Dementia in 78 430 Adults Living in the UK

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. JAMA Neurology 2022-10-01 Prevention and risk

    In this cohort study, a higher number of steps was associated with lower risk of all-cause dementia.

  47. Associations of grip strength, walking pace, and the risk of incident dementia: A prospective cohort study of 340212 participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-09-24 Long-term cohort studies

    Grip strength and walking pace have been linked to cognitive dysfunction.

  48. Association of Combined Healthy Lifestyle Factors With Incident Dementia in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurology 2022-09-14 Long-term cohort studies

    We aimed to investigate whether the increased risk of dementia among individuals with diabetes can be offset by a broad combination of healthy lifestyle factors.

  49. Depression, Depression Treatments, and Risk of Incident Dementia: A Prospective Cohort Study of 354,313 Participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Biological Psychiatry 2022-09-05 Prevention and risk

    The negative association between depression treatment and incident dementia was significant in the increasing and chronically low courses, highlighting the necessity of timely interventional strategies before depression progresses to a chronically severe state.

  50. Association of Multimorbidity, Disease Clusters, and Modification by Genetic Factors With Risk of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. JAMA network open 2022-09-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Individual conditions have been identified as risk factors for dementia; however, it is important to consider the role of multimorbidity, as conditions often co-occur.

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