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  1. Incidence of dementia after age 90 years and association with APOE genotype, race, and sex in the USA: the LifeAfter90 prospective cohort study 2026-08-04
  2. Dementia incidence continues to increase with age in the oldest old: the 90+ study 2010-01-01

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2 studies carry this tag.

Date range

2010 to 2026

Top journals

  • Annals of neurology 1
  • The lancet. Healthy longevity 1

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  1. Incidence of dementia after age 90 years and association with APOE genotype, race, and sex in the USA: the LifeAfter90 prospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The lancet. Healthy longevity 2026-08-04 How common it is

    In Fine-Gray models, dementia risk was higher in female than in male participants (subdistribution hazard ratio [sHR] 1·89, 95% CI 1·30-2·76) and Black than Asian participants (sHR 1·75, 1·07-2·88), lower in APOE ε2 carriers than in non-carriers (sHR 0·39, 0·17-0·88), and not significantly higher in APOE ε4 carriers than in non-carriers (sHR 1·51, 0·92-2·47).

  2. Dementia incidence continues to increase with age in the oldest old: the 90+ study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2010-01-01 Caregiving

    Incidence of all-cause dementia is very high in people aged 90 years and older and continues to increase exponentially with age in both men and women.

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