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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. Post‐acute care transitions and outcomes among Medicare beneficiaries with dementia: Associations with race/ethnicity and dual status

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Health Services Research 2022-09-01 Risk factors

    Dual-related differences were significantly larger than race/ethnicity differences in PAC transitions.

  2. Brain-age is associated with progression to dementia in memory clinic patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. NeuroImage. Clinical 2022-08-30 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Biomarkers for the early detection of dementia risk hold promise for better disease monitoring and targeted interventions.

  3. Spatial Navigation and Its Association With Biomarkers and Future Dementia in Memory Clinic Patients Without Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Neurology 2022-08-26 Biomarkers

    Impaired spatial navigation was associated with conversion to dementia within 2 and 4 years and with key CSF and MRI biomarkers for AD and neurodegeneration in patients with SCD and MCI.

  4. Leisure-time sedentary behaviors are differentially associated with all-cause dementia regardless of engagement in physical activity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2022-08-22 Long-term cohort studies

    Sedentary behavior (SB) is associated with cardiometabolic disease and mortality, but its association with dementia is currently unclear.

  5. Life course, genetic, and neuropathological associations with brain age in the 1946 British Birth Cohort: a population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. The lancet. Healthy longevity 2022-08-22 Digital health tools

    Between May 28, 2015, and Jan 10, 2018, 502 individuals were assessed as part of Insight 46.

  6. The Role of Obesity and Diabetes in Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2022-08-17 Prevention trials

    Chronic conditions such as obesity, diabetes, and dementia are increasing in the United States (US) population.

  7. Plasma metabolomic profiles of dementia: a prospective study of 110,655 participants in the UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. BMC medicine 2022-08-15 Long-term cohort studies

    Plasma metabolomic profile is disturbed in dementia patients, but previous studies have discordant conclusions.

  8. Sleep duration, genetic susceptibility, and Alzheimer's disease: a longitudinal UK Biobank-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. BMC geriatrics 2022-08-02 Long-term cohort studies

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most frequently occurring type of dementia.

  9. Association of Ultraprocessed Food Consumption With Risk of Dementia: A Prospective Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Neurology 2022-07-27 Prevention and risk

    In this prospective cohort study, higher consumption of UPF was associated with higher risk of dementia, whereas substituting unprocessed or minimally processed foods for UPF was associated with lower risk of dementia.

  10. Physical and Mental Activity, Disease Susceptibility, and Risk of Dementia: A Prospective Cohort Study Based on UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neurology 2022-07-27 Long-term cohort studies

    The association between patterns of physical/mental activity and dementia and how it is affected by disease susceptibility remains unknown.

  11. Associations of Social Isolation and Loneliness With Later Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. Neurology 2022-07-11 Prevention and risk

    Then, voxel-wise brainwide association analyses were used to identify gray matter volumes (GMVs) associated with social isolation and with loneliness.

  12. Determining Vascular Risk Factors for Dementia and Dementia Risk Prediction Across Mid- to Later Life: The Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurology 2022-07-11 Long-term cohort studies

    The association between vascular risk factors and dementia varies with age, making generalizability of dementia risk prediction rules to individuals of different ages challenging.

  13. Association of Pace of Aging Measured by Blood-Based DNA Methylation With Age-Related Cognitive Impairment and Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Neurology 2022-07-06 Long-term cohort studies

    DNA methylation algorithms are increasingly used to estimate biological aging; however, how these proposed measures of whole-organism biological aging relate to aging in the brain is not known.

  14. Which components of the Mediterranean diet are associated with dementia? A UK Biobank cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. GeroScience 2022-07-06 Prevention trials

    Cohort studies suggest that the Mediterranean diet is associated with better global cognition in older adults, slower cognitive decline and lower risk of dementia.

  15. Adherence to MIND Diet, Genetic Susceptibility, and Incident Dementia in Three US Cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Nutrients 2022-07-03 Prevention trials

    Adherence to Mediterranean-DASH Diet Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay (MIND) may lower the risk of dementia by impacting immunity and cholesterol, which are pathways also implicated by genome-wide association studies of Alzheimer’s Dementia (AD).

  16. Variation in Population Attributable Fraction of Dementia Associated With Potentially Modifiable Risk Factors by Race and Ethnicity in the US

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. JAMA network open 2022-07-01 Prevention and risk

    A large fraction of dementia cases in the US were associated with potentially modifiable risk factors, especially for Black and Hispanic individuals.

  17. Microbial-derived metabolites as a risk factor of age-related cognitive decline and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Molecular neurodegeneration 2022-06-17 Inflammation and the immune system

    A consequence of our progressively ageing global population is the increasing prevalence of worldwide age-related cognitive decline and dementia.

  18. Cataract, Cataract Surgery, and Risk of Incident Dementia: A Prospective Cohort Study of 300,823 Participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2022-06-14 Long-term cohort studies

    Visual impairment and interventions to preserve vision may impact dementia risk.

  19. Sleep, physical activity, sedentary behavior, and risk of incident dementia: a prospective cohort study of 431,924 UK Biobank participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2022-06-14 Long-term cohort studies

    Although sleep, physical activity and sedentary behavior have been found to be associated with dementia risk, findings are inconsistent and their joint relationship remains unclear.

  20. Addition of Vision Impairment to a Life-Course Model of Potentially Modifiable Dementia Risk Factors in the US

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2022-06-01 Disparities

    The number of older adults with dementia in the US and globally is projected to increase as a result of population aging and growth.

  21. Associations Between Handgrip Strength and Dementia Risk, Cognition, and Neuroimaging Outcomes in the UK Biobank Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. JAMA network open 2022-06-01 Genetics

    To evaluate reverse causation, we assessed whether a polygenic risk score for AD is associated with HGS.

  22. Cardiometabolic multimorbidity, genetic risk, and dementia: a prospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. The lancet. Healthy longevity 2022-06-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Individual cardiometabolic disorders and genetic factors are associated with an increased dementia risk; however, the relationship between dementia and cardiometabolic multimorbidity is unclear.

  23. Risk Factors Associated With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias by Sex and Race and Ethnicity in the US

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2022-06-01 Prevention and risk

    The findings suggest that risk factors associated with ADRDs have changed over the past decade and differ based on sex and race and ethnicity.

  24. Association of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Fibrosis With Incident Dementia and Cognition: The Rotterdam Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Neurology 2022-05-26 Long-term cohort studies

    Whether this results in an increased risk for dementia remains unclear.

  25. High-fat diet exacerbates cognitive decline in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease and mixed dementia in a sex-dependent manner

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2022-05-14 Prevention and risk

    High-fat diet had a wider array of metabolic, cognitive, and neuropathological consequences in AD and MxD females compared to males.

  26. Association of life course adiposity with risk of incident dementia: a prospective cohort study of 322,336 participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2022-05-10 Long-term cohort studies

    Cohort studies report inconsistent associations between body mass index (BMI) and all-cause incident dementia.

  27. Sex differences in the association between cardiovascular diseases and dementia subtypes: a prospective analysis of 464,616 UK Biobank participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Biology of sex differences 2022-05-07 Long-term cohort studies

    Whether the association of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) with dementia differs by sex remains unclear, and the role of socioeconomic, lifestyle, genetic, and medical factors in their association is unknown.

  28. Obesity as a Risk Factor for Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease: The Role of Leptin

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2022-05-06 Prevention and risk

    Obesity is a growing worldwide health problem, affecting many people due to excessive saturated fat consumption, lack of exercise, or a sedentary lifestyle.

  29. Association of Dual Decline in Cognition and Gait Speed With Risk of Dementia in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. JAMA network open 2022-05-02 Disparities

    Of 19 114 randomized participants, 16 855 (88.2%) had longitudinal gait and cognitive data for inclusion in this study (mean [SD] age, 75.0 [4.4] years; 9435 women [56.0%], 7558 participants [44.8%] with 12 or more years of education).

  30. Longitudinal Changes in Hearing and Visual Impairments and Risk of Dementia in Older Adults in the United States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. JAMA network open 2022-05-02 Disparities

    Compared with no sensory impairment, DSI was associated with increased risk of all-cause dementia (hazard ratio [HR], 2.60; 95% CI, 1.66-2.06; P Conclusions and relevance In this cohort study, DSI was associated with increased risk of dementia, particularly AD.

  31. Statin use and risk of dementia or Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. European journal of preventive cardiology 2022-05-01 Prevention and risk

    These results confirm the absence of a neurocognitive risk associated with statin treatment and suggest a potential favourable role of statins.

  32. Time spent in outdoor light is associated with the risk of dementia: a prospective cohort study of 362094 participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. BMC medicine 2022-04-25 Long-term cohort studies

    Sunlight exposure had a J-shaped association with dementia risk.

  33. Handgrip strength and all-cause dementia incidence and mortality: findings from the UK Biobank prospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle 2022-04-21 Long-term cohort studies

    This study aimed to investigate the associations of grip strength with incidence and mortality from dementia and whether these associations differ by sociodemographic and lifestyle factors.

  34. Association of Cardiovascular Risk Trajectory With Cognitive Decline and Incident Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Neurology 2022-04-20 Genetics

    The findings of the current study show that the longitudinal, cumulative trajectory of cardiovascular risk is predictive of dementia risk and associated with the emergence of memory decline.

  35. Healthy lifestyle and life expectancy with and without Alzheimer's dementia: population based cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2022-04-13 Prevention trials

    A healthy lifestyle was associated with a longer life expectancy among men and women, and they lived a larger proportion of their remaining years without Alzheimer's dementia.

  36. Neighborhood disadvantage and dementia incidence in a cohort of Asian American and non‐Latino White older adults in Northern California

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2022-04-06 Risk factors

    Among non-Latino Whites, ADI was associated with dementia incidence (most vs. least disadvantaged ADI quintile HR = 1.09, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.02-1.15).

  37. Reproductive factors and the risk of incident dementia: A cohort study of UK Biobank participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. PLoS medicine 2022-04-05 Long-term cohort studies

    Women's reproductive factors have been associated with the risk of dementia; however, these findings remain uncertain.

  38. Sleep apnea and the risk of dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Journal of Sleep Research 2022-04-02 Prevention and risk

    Sleep apnea (SA) is potentially a modifiable risk factor for dementia.

  39. Association of Race and Ethnicity With Incidence of Dementia Among Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. JAMA 2022-04-01 Prevention and risk

    Dementia is a significant public health challenge and may have greater incidence among older adults from underrepresented racial and ethnic minority groups.

  40. Physical activity as a protective factor for dementia and Alzheimer's disease: systematic review, meta-analysis and quality assessment of cohort and case-control studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. British Journal of Sports Medicine 2022-03-17 Prevention and risk

    PA was associated with lower incidence of all-cause dementia and Alzheimer's disease, even in longer follow-ups, supporting PA as a modifiable protective lifestyle factor, even after reducing the effects of reverse causation.

  41. Association of a wide range of chronic diseases and apolipoprotein E4 genotype with subsequent risk of dementia in community-dwelling adults: A retrospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. EClinicalMedicine 2022-03-13 Long-term cohort studies

    Identifying independent and interactive associations of a wide range of diseases and multimorbidity and apolipoprotein E4 (APOE4) with dementia may help promote cognitive health.

  42. Sex and Gender Differences in Environmental Influences on Dementia Incidence in Germany, 2014–2019: An Observational Cohort Study Based on Health Claims Data

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2022-03-08 Risk factors

    After adjusting for multi-morbidity and relocation-related selection bias, we saw that people living in regions with the highest tertile of income (HR = 0.87, p < 0.001), and who had the highest tertile of remaining life expectancy at age 60 (HR = 0.93, p = 0.012) had lower dementia risks.

  43. Association of Echocardiographic Measures of Left Atrial Function and Size With Incident Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. JAMA 2022-03-01 Disparities

    In this exploratory analysis of a US community-based cohort, several echocardiographic measures of lower LA function were significantly associated with an increased risk of subsequent dementia.

  44. Association of Ischemic Stroke Incidence, Severity, and Recurrence With Dementia in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2022-03-01 Disparities

    In this study, risk of dementia significantly increased after ischemic stroke, independent of vascular risk factors.

  45. Association of Poor Sleep Burden in Middle Age and Older Adults With Risk for Delirium During Hospitalization

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2022-03-01 Long-term cohort studies

    Delirium is a distressing neurocognitive disorder recently linked to sleep disturbances.

  46. Association of social isolation, loneliness and genetic risk with incidence of dementia: UK Biobank Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. BMJ open 2022-02-23 Long-term cohort studies

    Social isolation and loneliness have been associated with increased risk of dementia, but it is not known whether this risk is modified or confounded by genetic risk of dementia.

  47. Exposure to air pollution and risk of incident dementia in the UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Environmental research 2022-02-08 Long-term cohort studies

    Air pollution may cause inflammatory and oxidative stress damage to the brain, leading to neurodegenerative disease.

  48. Association of Loneliness With 10-Year Dementia Risk and Early Markers of Vulnerability for Neurocognitive Decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Neurology 2022-02-07 Genetics

    Over 10 years of close clinical dementia surveillance in this cohort study, loneliness was associated with increased dementia risk; this tripled in adults whose baseline risk would otherwise be relatively low on the basis of age and genetic risk, representing a majority of the US population.

  49. Peripheral immunity is associated with the risk of incident dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2022-01-25 Long-term cohort studies

    Central immunity components especially microglia in dementia have been well studied and corresponding immunotherapy gradually caught the attention.

  50. Association of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations with risk of dementia among individuals with type 2 diabetes: A cohort study in the UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. PLoS medicine 2022-01-13 Long-term cohort studies

    However, due to the synergistic effect between diabetic pathology and neuroinflammation, and the prothrombotic profile in patients with diabetes, whether vitamin D is associated with risk of dementia among patients with diabetes is unclear.

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