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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. Associations of physical frailty, depression and their interaction with incident all‐cause dementia among older adults: evidence from three prospective cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. General Psychiatry 2025-12-01 How common it is

    Individuals with both physical frailty and depression had the highest risk of dementia.

  2. Associations of social determinants of health (SDOH) with dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI), the HABS‐HD Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    All the five dimensional SDOH disadvantages were significantly associated with higher odds of both dementia and MCI in the overall sample (p <0.05) (Figure 1).

  3. Dementia incidence and prevalence in older adults with HIV: a 23-year retrospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. AIDS 2025-12-01 How common it is

    Among 24 762 people with HIV and 494 963 people without HIV (86.9% men, 45.5% White, 23.1% Black, 20.3% Hispanic), incident dementia diagnoses declined from 2000 to 2023 in both people with and without HIV (-7.68 and -2.70% per period, respectively).

  4. Dietary Patterns and Risk of Age-Related Cognitive Decline and Dementia: Enthusiasm Before Evidence?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2025-12-01 Prevention trials

    When systematically reviewed using the USDA Nutrition Evidence Systematic Review method and an a priori established protocol, a common theme emerged: diets characterized by higher consumption of vegetables, fruits, legumes, nuts, fish, seafood, and unsaturated vegetable oils, alongside lower intake of red and processed meats and sugar-sweetened beverages, are consistently associated with a reduced risk of cognitive decline and dementia.

  5. Diet‐Driven Metabolite Patterns Link the MIND Diet to Dementia Biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Prevention trials

    Sample characteristics are shown in Table 1.

  6. Dream recall in cognitively healthy older adults: associations with blood p ‐tau217 levels, APOE ε4 carriage, and cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Biomarkers

    Dream recall status was associated with blood p ‐tau217 levels, APOE ε4 carriage, and future cognitive decline among older individuals cognitively healthy at baseline.

  7. Enhancing Dementia Risk Prediction with Heart Rate and Machine Learning in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Digital health tools

    Among the 18,013 participants with complete data for analysis, 516 (2.86%) exhibited cognitive impairment.

  8. Food Insecurity, Local Food Environments, and Incident Dementia Among Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    Residing in neighborhoods characterized by low-income, low-vehicle access, and higher low-fat milk prices was associated with a greater risk of incident dementia.

  9. Frequency of Unrecognized and Undertreated Dementia Risk Factors in Community‐dwelling Latino and Black Americans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    105 participants (47 Latino, 55 Black), 64.7 (±8.8) years-old, female 66 (63%), with 16 (±2.3) years of education were assessed.

  10. Life Course Modifiable Risk Factors of Dementia: Replicating the 2024 Lancet Commission Model in a Single Longitudinal Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    When risk factors were evaluated independently, we found less early-life education, mid-life hearing loss and diabetes, and late-life social isolation and visual loss associated with increased odds for dementia.

  11. Potentially modifiable risk factors for dementia in Norway (HUNT4 70+): a retrospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. The Lancet Healthy Longevity 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    Between Sept 1, 2017, and Feb 28, 2019, 19 403 individuals were invited to participate and 9745 participants (1525 with dementia, 8220 without dementia) were included. 4445 (45·6%) of 9745 participants were male and 5300 (54·4%) were female.

  12. Among 160 centenarians, 63.7% did not meet the PCFP criteria and were classified as having dementia.

  13. Relationships among cognitive function, ADRD risk and sociodemographic characteristics in a diverse rural setting in south‐central Florida

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    (n = 399) have completed the first follow-up assessments, including MoCA, mCAIDE, memory self-report, demographic information.

  14. Residential segregation exacerbates the effects of cardiovascular disease on cognition in Black older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 34 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    In highly segregated counties, Black older adults with elevated CVD demonstrated worse memory than those with lower CVD; in less segregated counties, memory levels did not differ by CVD.

  15. Risk Factors for Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Differ Across Classification Codes Evaluating Disadvantaged and Rural Regions in a Kentucky Appalachian Cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    Diagnostic classifications, mean age, and education did not differ significantly across classifications.

  16. Rural-Urban Differences in Social Isolation and Dementia Risk Among Older Adults in India

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Innovation in Aging 2025-12-01 Disparities

    Older adults in rural India experience higher social isolation due to limited social and healthcare resources.

  17. The Role of Diet in Dementia Prevention: Subjective and Objective Diet Scores

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Prevention trials

    117 participants have complete data (mean age: 73 ± 7.4).

  18. Trends and Disparities in Dementia Among Older Adults With Coronary Artery Disease, 1999–2023: Insights From the CDC WONDER Database

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 35 out of 100. Brain and Behavior 2025-12-01 Disparities

    In adults aged ≥65 years, dementia with CAD was the cause of 1,256,284 deaths between 1999 and 2023.

  19. Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Cognitive Performance, and Incident Dementia; Identifying Mediating Pathways and Biomarkers From the Plasma Proteome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of Neurochemistry 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is associated with poorer cognitive performance and increased dementia risk.

  20. Understanding Social Determinants of Health and Cognitive Impairment Risk in Diverse Populations Using Machine Learning: A HABS‐HD Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    Income was among the top risk factors for all three groups.

  21. Using real world data to visualize longitudinal modifiable dementia risk factors in the community through an online interactive map

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-12-01 Risk factors

    There were observable geographic variations in education (range 13.4-16.2 years, Figure 1), age (range 66.7-72.4 years) and severable modifiable risk factors for dementia across Tasmania, Australia.

  22. Age at diabetes diagnosis, genetic susceptibility and dementia risk: a prospective study of 13,126 participants from the UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Medicine Plus 2025-11-28 Long-term cohort studies

    (1) To investigate the association between age at diabetes diagnosis and the incidence of all-cause dementia (ACD), Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and vascular dementia (VD) in individuals with diabetes.

  23. Keeping current with the burden and risk factors of Alzheimer disease and other dementias (ADOD) from global to national levels is critical for healthcare planning, prevention strategies, and the allocation of resources.

  24. Associations of Individual Beverage Types and Substitution with Dementia Risk: A UK Biobank Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The journal of nutrition health & aging 2025-11-27 Long-term cohort studies

    Over 13.45 years, 992 all-cause dementia cases were recorded.

  25. In 2021, LOAD demonstrated a substantially higher global burden than EOAD: incidence cases (8,455,150 [95% UI: 5,818,063-11,461,560] vs. 1,381,906 [894,768-1,963,453]), mortality cases (1,879,291 [471,472-4,968,222] vs. 73,386 [14,059-232,170]), and DALYs (32,558,570 [14,907,368-71,154,572] vs. 3,774,117 [1,696,439-8,881,154]).

  26. Additive Effects of White Matter Hyperintensity and APOE ε4 Status on Risk of Incident Dementia in Two Large Longitudinal Cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Annals of Neurology 2025-11-21 Vascular contributions

    In ARIC (n = 1,736, mean age 63, 58.8% female, 48.7% non-Hispanic White individuals, median follow-up 18.6 years), the dementia incidence rate was 10.4 (95% CI, 9.2-11.6) per 1,000 person-years.

  27. Physical Activity Over the Adult Life Course and Risk of Dementia in the Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2025-11-19 How common it is

    This study included 1526 early adult-life (mean [SD] age, 36.7 [4.7] years; 821 [53.8%] female), 1943 midlife (mean [SD] age, 54.0 [5.8] years; 1010 [52.0%] female), and 885 late-life (mean [SD] age, 71.0 [4.5] years; 473 [53.4%] female) participants.

  28. Prevalence and causes of anemia among older adults in India: findings from wave 2 of the Harmonized Diagnostic Assessment of Dementia for the Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI-DAD)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. International Journal for Equity in Health 2025-11-14 Clinical safety

    Anemia among older adults aged ≥ 60 years is a well-described risk factor that increases the risk of falls, cardiovascular diseases, and mortality.

  29. Predictive factors for dementia among older adults in South Korea: an interpretable machine learning analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2025-11-13 Digital health tools

    Predictive performance was comparable across algorithms, with R² ranging from 0.201 to 0.361, highest in the MCI_All dataset.

  30. Income, Race-Ethnicity, and Dementia Risk Factors in the United States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurology 2025-11-12 Risk factors

    There were 13,145 individuals with risk factor data between 2015 and 2018 (51.1% aged 18-44, 31.0% aged 45-64, and 17.9% aged ≥65 years; 51.5% female after survey-weighting).

  31. ADAS-Cog Trajectories Differ from Expected Decline in Dementia Following Repeated Non-Invasive Interventions over 3 Years

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Medicina 2025-11-06 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Participants showed a significantly slower rate of cognitive decline than expected from the AD reference rate (p < 0.001), with many demonstrating stabilized ADAS-Cog scores during their respective treatment periods, ranging from 1 to 3 years.

  32. Hearing Loss, Brain Structure, Cognition, and Dementia Risk in the Framingham Heart Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. JAMA Network Open 2025-11-05 Prevention and risk

    Sample 1 included 1656 participants (mean [range] age, 58.1 [29.7-85.6] years; 903 female [54.5%]), and sample 2 included 935 participants (mean [range] age, 67.6 [60.0-85.6] years; 518 female [55.4%]).

  33. Association of zinc deficiency and risk of new-onset dementia: a retrospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Frontiers in Nutrition 2025-11-04 How common it is

    Zinc deficiency represents an independent, modifiable risk factor for new-onset dementia with a clear dose-response relationship.

  34. Incidence and Risk of Stroke following Dementia: A Nationwide Cohort Study in South Korea

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 2025-11-04 How common it is

    During a mean follow-up of 2.49 years (median, 1.99; standard deviation, 2.07; interquartile range, 2.66), dementia was significantly associated with increased stroke risk (aHR, 3.19; 95% confidence interval, 2.84-3.57).

  35. Heart rate response and recovery during exercise and dementia risk: a prospective UK biobank study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2025-11-03 Long-term cohort studies

    The heart rate response/recovery (HRR) index, a common indicator for cardiovascular health during exercise, has been linked with neurocognitive disorders and mortality.

  36. Cumulative and variable depression symptom exposure and incident dementia: Panel data analysis of four longitudinal cohort studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-11-01 How common it is

    Each 1-unit increase in cumulative score was associated with a 3%-8% higher dementia hazard across cohorts.

  37. Impact of Statin Therapy on the Risk of Stroke Recurrence, Mortality, and Dementia After Ischemic Stroke (ISMARDD Study): A Comprehensive Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurology International 2025-11-01 Vascular contributions

    all-cause mortality, stroke recurrence, cognition, and C-reactive protein (CRP).

  38. Association between different dietary patterns and the risk of major brain disorders: a prospective multi-cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. EClinicalMedicine 2025-10-30 Prevention trials

    In the UK Biobank cohort (N = 166,916), MIND diet demonstrated the broadest neuroprotective effects.

  39. Association between vaccinations and risk of dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Age and Ageing 2025-10-30 Prevention and risk

    Adult vaccinations, particularly against herpes zoster, influenza, pneumococcus and Tdap, are associated with a lower risk of dementia.

  40. Enhancing dementia risk prediction with heart rate and machine learning in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-10-29 Digital health tools

    BackgroundAccurate and accessible risk assessment tools are essential for effective dementia management.

  41. Financial strain and depressive symptoms among parent‐child dyads coping with dementia, depression, or delirium

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Behavior & Socioeconomics of Aging 2025-10-28 Clinical safety

    Study 1 showed that each person's financial strain was associated with their own greater depressive symptoms.

  42. Cheese Consumption and Incidence of Dementia in Community-Dwelling Older Japanese Adults: The JAGES 2019–2022 Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Nutrients 2025-10-25 How common it is

    After PSM, 7914 participants were analyzed (3957 consumers; 3957 non-consumers).

  43. This study aimed to investigate the bidirectional causal relationship between celiac disease (CD) and the risk of Alzheimer disease (AD) or frontotemporal dementia (FTD) using Mendelian randomization (MR), in order to clarify prior inconsistent findings.

  44. Elevated gonadotropins and risk of dementia in Chinese adults aged over 80: a cross-sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 2025-10-17 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Elevated FSH and reduced LH may be associated with poorer cognition and an increased risk of AD-D in very old Chinese adults, particularly in males.

  45. Associations of place‐based social determinants of health with biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia Behavior & Socioeconomics of Aging 2025-10-15 Risk factors

    Place-based SDoH measures were higher in Black compared to White participants.

  46. Prioritizing Modifiable Risk Factors for Dementia Prevention across the Spectrum of Genetic Susceptibility: A Prospective Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Annals of Neurology 2025-10-14 Genetics

    Our findings highlight the importance of personalized risk assessments and the development of tailored interventions based on genetic background to prevent dementia more effectively.

  47. Glycemic index, glycemic load, and risk of dementia: a prospective analysis within the UK Biobank cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. International Journal of Epidemiology 2025-10-13 Long-term cohort studies

    Dementia incidence was 0.89 per 1000 person-years.

  48. Sleep disorders and the risk of cognitive decline or dementia: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Journal of Neurology 2025-10-13 Prevention and risk

    This meta-analysis highlights sleep management as a pivotal modifiable factor in reducing the risk of all-cause cognitive decline.

  49. Hypoglycemia as a risk factor for dementia in diabetes: A systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Advanced Neurology 2025-10-09 Getting a diagnosis

    Diabetes is a global health concern associated with complications such as cognitive decline and dementia.

  50. Plant-Based Diet Quality, Healthy Lifestyle, and Dementia Risk in Older Adults With Cardiometabolic Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. JACC Advances 2025-10-09 Prevention and risk

    A total of 9,656 (13.5%) participants had at least 1 CMD at baseline.

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