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  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. Public awareness of the hearing loss-dementia link and self-reported behavioral changes in middle- to older-aged Canadians

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-26 Prevention and risk

    Hearing loss is a potential risk factor for dementia, but public awareness of this link and its behavioral implications remain poorly understood.

  2. Patterns of modifiable lifestyle, behavioural and health-related risk factors and their associations with incident dementia in UK Biobank

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-25 Prevention and risk

    Over a median follow-up of 13 years, 5,304 participants developed dementia.

  3. Excess hypoglycaemia-related hospitalisation in older adults with comorbid type 2 diabetes and dementia: a UK Biobank cohort study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-16 How common it is

    It remains unclear whether the combined conditions confer an excess risk of hypoglycaemia-related hospitalisation beyond the risks associated with either condition alone.

  4. Education and Alzheimer Disease Genetic Risk in Associations of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists With Dementia Among Adults With Type 2 Diabetes

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv 2026-09-08 Drug development

    We estimated associations of educational attainment and Alzheimer disease genetic risk with treatment initiation and incident dementia and compared GLP-1 receptor agonist initiators with initiators of non-sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor second-line therapies, with a separate sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor compa

  5. Fear of Dementia among Middle-Aged and Older Adults in China: Lived Experiences, Coping, and Support Needs

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-06 Brain tissue and pathology

    BackgroundFear of dementia (FoD) can shape psychological well-being and responses to perceived cognitive change.

  6. Causal roles of phenotypic age and metabolic health on dementia: a Mendelian randomisation and structure learning study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-03 Genetics

    BackgroundPhenotypic age acceleration (PhenoAgeAccel), derived from PhenoAge, and MetaboHealth are composite exposures of biological ageing and metabolic health associated with dementia-related outcomes.

  7. Differential associations of individual- and neighborhood-level socioeconomic status with mortality in dementia: Findings from the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2026-09-03 Risk factors

    BackgroundAlzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias are leading causes of death worldwide.

  8. Geospatial analysis of the association of cardiometabolic diseases and incident Lewy body dementia in the Medicare population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. npj Parkinson s Disease 2026-09-03 Risk factors

    Stroke is associated with a higher LBD risk.

  9. Left ventricular hypertrophy, brain atrophy and cognitive decline in type 2 diabetes mellitus: Diabetes & Dementia (D2) cohort study

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-09-02 Brain scans and imaging

    BACKGROUNDPeople with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are at higher risk of cerebral small vessel disease and left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), potentially contributing to cognitive decline and dementia.

  10. Domain-specific physical activity levels and risk of dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. The Lancet. Public health 2026-09 Prevention and risk

    Over a median follow-up of 10·0 years (IQR 5·1-21·3), high physical activity levels were associated with reduced risks of all-cause dementia (n=146 effect sizes; RR 0·80 [95% CI 0·75-0·86]; I 2 =97·4%), Alzheimer's disease (n=59; 0·79 [0·70-0·90]; I 2 =91·3%), and vascular dementia (n=21; 0·71 [0·58-0·87]; I 2 =77·5%); however, associations varied by domain.

  11. Over 15 years of follow-up (UKB), moderate or high CVH versus low CVH was associated with a lower risk of MCI (hazard ratio 0.82 [95% CI 0.71, 0.95], P < 0.05) but not with risk of all-cause dementia (0.97 [0.84, 1.11], P = 0.63).

  12. Metabolomic signatures of data-driven type 2 diabetes subtypes and their associations with dementia and stroke risk

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-08-25 Prevention and risk

    We examined whether their metabolomic profiles also differed and whether subtype-related metabolic patterns were associated with dementia, stroke, and all-cause mortality.

  13. Race-Specific Dementia Risk Prediction Using 2024 Lancet Commission Risk Factors and Resting Heart Rate: A Survival Analysis of 55,004 NACC Participants

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-08-25 Disparities

    Persistent racial disparities in dementia raise concerns regarding the validity and generalizability of existing prognostic models across diverse populations.

  14. Antidiabetic medications and risk of cognitive disorders in type 2 diabetes: A retrospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. PLoS ONE 2026-08-24 Drug development

    Among 1,528,885 adults with type 2 diabetes (mean age, 58 years; 49.2% women), GLP-1 receptor agonists plus metformin were associated with lower incidence of vascular dementia (HR, 0.46; 95% CI, 0.37-0.57), mild cognitive disorder (HR, 0.79; 95% CI, 0.66-0.95), and Alzheimer disease (HR, 0.46; 95% CI, 0.31-0.70).

  15. AbstractO_ST_ABSBackgroundC_ST_ABSGlucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists and sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors are increasingly used for type 2 diabetes.

  16. Deep multimodal clustering identifies biological subtypes of normal aging with divergent cognitive decline risk

    ⚠ Preprint — not yet peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 16 out of 100. medRxiv (preprint) 2026-08-19 Brain scans and imaging

    Cognitively normal older adults are often regarded as a homogeneous population in preventive and disease-modifying clinical trials for dementia.

  17. Per-Capita Food Availability and Global Dementia Burden Across Multiple Exposure Windows

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Nutrients 2026-08-18 Risk factors

    Higher per-capita food availability was positively associated with dementia outcomes in minimally adjusted models, particularly for the 2005 exposure window, although these associations were substantially attenuated after full covariate adjustment.

  18. 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).

  19. Association of Sleep Variables With Cognitive Performance and the Risk of Dementia in the Sleep and Dementia Consortium

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurology 2026-07-29 Risk factors

    = 0.039) were associated with better global cognition.

  20. Sustained fish intake and 21-year Alzheimer's disease risk: a target trial emulation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. American Journal of Epidemiology 2026-07-27 Prevention and risk

    Increasing oily fish intake has been proposed as a strategy for Alzheimer's disease (AD) prevention, but evidence for long-term benefit remains limited.

  21. Neighborhood Disadvantage and Dementia Risk Among Older Patients With Kidney Failure: Differences by Race/Ethnicity and Urbanicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Kidney Medicine 2026-07-20 Risk factors

    Older patients with kidney failure residing in high-disadvantage neighborhoods, particularly Black patients and those in suburban, rural, or small-town areas, had a higher risk of ADRD compared with those in low-disadvantage neighborhoods.

  22. Mapping dementia risk factors and their interactions in Denmark: a nationwide cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. The Lancet Public Health 2026-07-09 How common it is

    The overall PAF for dementia in Denmark was 37·8% (95% CI 35·6-40·0) for the assessed risk factors.

  23. APOE-ε4 carriership and dementia risk over 10 years among Asian American and White older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Alzheimer's & Dementia 2026-07 Genetics

    Despite differences in prevalence of APOE-ε4, its association with dementia risk was similar across Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, and non-Latino White participants.

  24. Genetic Risk for Alzheimer Disease, Midlife Hypertension, and Dementia: The ARIC Neurocognitive Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2026-07-01 Genetics

    Genetic risk for AD does not modify the association between hypertension and dementia.

  25. Polygenic Risk Scores for Incident Dementia in the Multi‐Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Genetic Epidemiology 2026-06-23 Disparities

    We found comparable associations between dementia and PRS when comparing a C+T method with only 15 SNPs and PRS derived from Bayesian models that include > 800,000 SNPs (HR 5e‐08 = 1.18, 95% CI: 1.08–1.28; HR CSx = 1.17, 95% CI: 1.07−1.27).

  26. CNS target engagement of high-dose DHA supplementation in older adults at risk for dementia: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. EBioMedicine 2026-06-18 Prevention and risk

    APOE ε4 carriers have increased Alzheimer's disease risk and altered omega-3 metabolism.

  27. Agricultural pesticide use and Alzheimer’s disease dementia prevalence across US counties in a mixed supervised–unsupervised analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2026-06-11 Risk factors

    Agricultural pesticide use represents one of the most geographically patterned environmental systems, yet most prior research has focused largely on individual compounds rather than correlated exposure regimes.

  28. Ultraprocessed Foods and the Risk of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia in Older US Adults: 2013-2020 Health and Retirement Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. American Journal of Public Health 2026-06-03 Prevention and risk

    Increased UPF consumption is associated with higher risks of dementia, CIND, and CIND or dementia among US older adults.

  29. Diet Quality and Dementia Risk in Older Adults With Alzheimer Pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2026-06-01 Prevention and risk

    Over a mean follow-up of 8.4 years (range, Conclusions and relevance This cohort study of older adults found that adherence to a dietary pattern with lower inflammatory potential was associated with lower dementia risk among individuals with AD pathology and broader neurobiological risk.

  30. Oral health, genetic susceptibility, and risk of dementia: a prospective cohort study of UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. GeroScience 2026-05-22 Long-term cohort studies

    Poor oral health and genetic susceptibility have each been linked to dementia risk, but their joint effects and subtype-specific associations remain unclear.

  31. The oscillatory biology of sleep: Linkage to dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Science 2026-05-21 Risk factors

    During wakefulness, neuromodulators operate largely independently to support behavior and cognition.

  32. Smoking Cessation, Weight Change, and Risk of Dementia: A Prospective Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Neurology 2026-05-20 Prevention and risk

    Smoking cessation was associated with a sustained lower dementia risk and slower cognitive decline, comparable to never smokers and those without short-term risk increase.

  33. Prediabetes as a critical stage for risk of dementia and stroke: evidence from the UK Biobank and Mendelian randomization

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology 2026-05-19 Long-term cohort studies

    During a median 13.7 years of follow-up, prediabetes (n=52,693) was associated with higher risks of vascular dementia (hazard ratio (HR):1.36; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.14-1.61), stroke (HR:1.09; 95% CI: 1.01-1.16), ischemic stroke (HR:1.10; 95% CI: 1.02-1.19), and intracerebral hemorrhage (HR:1.19; 95% CI: 1.01-1.39) compared with normoglycemia, after adjustment for major confounding factors and across extensive sensitivity analyses.

  34. Sex differences in modifiable risk factors of dementia and their associations with cognition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Biology of Sex Differences 2026-05-19 Risk factors

    This study included 17,182 participants with a mean age of 69.2 ± 10.6 years, 59.2% of which were women.

  35. The bidirectional association of epilepsy with Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative dementias: A longitudinal observational study on the UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2026-05-14 Long-term cohort studies

    Our findings reinforce the notion of a bidirectional association between epilepsy and AD, providing proof-of-concept that epilepsy, especially late-onset, may be successfully integrated into AD risk frameworks.

  36. Hearing aid effectiveness and probable dementia risk across 33 countries: A pooled analysis of seven cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Cell Reports Medicine 2026-05-12 Prevention and risk

    Given the inconsistent evidence regarding hearing aid use and reduced dementia risk, this study evaluates whether hearing aid use, particularly effective use, is associated with lower probable dementia risk among hearing-impaired older adults.

  37. Physical activity, falls, and dementia risk in adults aged ≥ 60: evidence from three cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2026-05-09 Clinical safety

    Over a median follow-up of 5.9-7.9 years, 3,492 dementia cases were identified.

  38. Data-driven subtypes of type 2 diabetes and risk of dementia, stroke, and brain structural changes in the UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice 2026-05-08 Long-term cohort studies

    Three subtypes emerged: severe obesity-related inflammatory diabetes (SOID), mild metabolic diabetes (MMD, reference), and mild age-related hypertension-predominant diabetes (MARD-H).

  39. Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and Risk of Dementia in Patients With Cognitive Complaint

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurology 2026-05-04 Brain tissue and pathology

    Of 2,323 MEMENTO participants, 2,136 (92%) were included in this study.

  40. Association Between ICD ‐Coded Delirium and Health Determinants in The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2026-05-02 Risk factors

    In this analytic cohort of 4130 participants, 486 (11.8%) experienced at least one hospitalization with delirium.

  41. Amyloid pathology and modifiable risk factors in cognitive decline among cognitively unimpaired older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease 2026-05-01 Treatments

    Significant interactions between amyloid status and modifiable risk factors were observed for diabetes (adjusted β = -0.206, p = 0.032), high cholesterol (adjusted β = -0.155, p < 0.001), and physical inactivity (adjusted β = -0.161, p = 0.046), indicating combined effects rather than additive effects on cognitive decline among Aβ+ individuals.

  42. Sleep Apnea as a Modifiable Risk Factor for Cognitive Decline and Dementia: Implications for Clinical Practice and Public Health

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 31 out of 100. Journal of Public Health and Primary Care 2026-05-01 Risk factors

    Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a prevalent sleep-disordered breathing condition, is increasingly recognized as a modifiable risk factor for cognitive decline and dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia.

  43. The Relationship Between Sleep, Cognition, and Dementia Risk in People With Focal Epilepsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2026-04-22 Risk factors

    = 0.991). Optimal sleep modified both cognitive performance and dementia risk in individuals with focal epilepsy compared with stroke patients and healthy controls.

  44. Hospitalization risk with and without dementia by region and race in the United States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. American Journal of Epidemiology 2026-04-21 Risk factors

    Understanding regional and racial variation in the risk of hospitalization with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD)-and how it differs from other conditions-is required to inform effective practice and policy.

  45. Impact of Different Antihypertensive Drug Classes on Incident Dementia in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2026-04-21 Prevention and risk

    Antihypertensive treatment significantly improved cognitive function scores (SMD, 0.06; 95% CI, 0.03-0.09; P Conclusions and implications Antihypertensive therapy significantly improves cognitive function with moderate certainty evidence, supporting its use for cognitive protection in older adults with hypertension.

  46. Age-stratified associations between severe mental illness, dementia, and ischemic stroke: findings from the PADRIS-PRESTO cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. European Neuropsychopharmacology 2026-04-20 Vascular contributions

    People with severe mental illnesses (SMIs), including schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD), major depressive disorder (MDD), and bipolar disorder (BD), experience elevated rates of physical comorbidity and premature mortality.

  47. Association Between Regular Dental Scaling and Risk of Dementia in Patients With Moderate to Severe Periodontitis Longitudinal Study Using Korean National Health Insurance Service-National Health Screening Cohort Data Base

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. International journal of dental hygiene 2026-04-13 Health systems and care delivery

    This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of regular dental scaling by evaluating the association between the frequency of dental scaling and the risk of dementia in individuals with moderate to severe periodontal disease.

  48. The role of frailty and comorbidities in severe infections and the risk of dementia: a prospective, multicohort, observational study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. The lancet. Healthy longevity 2026-04-09 How common it is

    Frailty, comorbidities, and other age-related diseases were associated with a higher risk of dementia but did not account for the elevated dementia risk observed after severe infections.

  49. Concurrent diarrhea and wasting (DW) among children aged 6–24 months represents a critical public health threat in East Africa, exacerbating infection susceptibility, stunting, cognitive impairment, and mortality.

  50. Risk factors for early-onset and late-onset dementia: a prospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. The lancet. Healthy longevity 2026-04-02 Prevention and risk

    Female participants had a lower hazard of early-onset dementia compared with males (HR 0·70 [95% CI 0·61-0·80]).

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