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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. Association of motoric cognitive risk syndrome with falls in older adults: findings from three longitudinal studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. BMC Geriatrics 2025-05-29 Clinical safety

    Ultimately, 10,373 participants were included in the analysis.

  2. Social isolation, loneliness, genetic risk, and incident dementia in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A population-based cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-05-29 Risk factors

    Social isolation and loneliness were associated with a greater risk for incident dementia among T2DM individuals, with differential explanatory factors.

  3. Temporal dynamics in the association between depression and dementia: an umbrella review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 73 out of 100. EClinicalMedicine 2025-05-29 Risk factors

    Pooled HRs indicated depression present in late-life (HR 1.95, 95% CI: 1.68–2.26; I 2 = 77.5%) and midlife (HR 1.56, 95% CI: 1.12–2.18; I 2 = 97.5%) significantly increased risk of all-cause dementia.

  4. Epidemiological Evidence on the Associations of Metal Exposure with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Among Elderly Women

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of Clinical Medicine 2025-05-28 Brain tissue and pathology

    We identified 34 epidemiological studies that met the inclusion criteria.

  5. Sleep disturbances as risk factors for neurodegeneration later in life

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. npj Dementia 2025-05-27 Risk factors

    We found that sleep disorders were associated with risk of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, dementia, Parkinson’s disease (PD), and vascular dementia in three national biobanks (hazard ratios from 1.3 (PD) to 5.11 (dementia)).

  6. Long-term health conditions and their impact on people with sleep disturbances and dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. BMC Geriatrics 2025-05-26 Risk factors

    We identified two overarching themes. Firstly, there was a complex interaction of LTCs, sleep and dementia.

  7. Non-traditional socio-environmental and geospatial determinants of Alzheimer's disease-related dementia mortality

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Science of The Total Environment 2025-05-26 Risk factors

    Ambient air pollution interacts with SVI to influence ADRD mortality rates.

  8. Sex differences in risk factors for Alzheimer dementia encephalopathy patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Frontiers in Dementia 2025-05-26 Risk factors

    Our analysis identified risk factors that contribute to sex differences in ADEN.

  9. Epidemiological and sociodemographic transitions in the global burden and risk factors for Alzheimer's disease and other dementias: a secondary analysis of GBD 2021

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International Journal for Equity in Health 2025-05-24 Disparities

    Globally, 9.84 million cases of ADOD occurred in 2021, with 1.95 million ADOD-related deaths, causing 36.33 million DALYs.

  10. Healthy Cardiovascular Status Attenuates the Detrimental Association Between Osteosarcopenic Adiposity and Alzheimer's Disease‐Related Dementia: A UK Biobank Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of the American Heart Association 2025-05-22 Long-term cohort studies

    OSA components are positively associated with the risk of ADRD.

  11. Association between sacubitril/valsartan and risk of dementia in patients with heart failure: a nationwide cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy 2025-05-21 How common it is

    We conducted a retrospective cohort study using the National Health Insurance Database in South Korea.

  12. In 2021, global mortality from AD and other dementias among individuals aged 60 and older reached approximately 1,922,970.75 cases (95% CI: 480,348.08 to 5,104,315.95), and the prevalence was 52,560,253.51 cases (95% CI: 41,399,948.84 to 65,633,448.71).

  13. Associations between sleep quality, plasma neurofilament light, and cognition in older adults without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Translational Psychiatry 2025-05-16 Getting a diagnosis

    The relationship between sleep quality, neurofilament light chain (NFL), and cognitive impairment, including the potential effect of plasma NFL in this association, remains unclear.

  14. Delirium as a Precursor to Dementia in Elderly Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 33 out of 100. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2025-05-16 Clinical safety

    This study aimed to investigate the association between delirium and incident dementia in elderly (≥65 years) type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients, addressing the heightened dementia risk in this population. newly diagnosed between January 1, 2005, and December 31, 2007.

  15. Sleep architecture and dementia risk in adults: an analysis of 5 cohorts from the Sleep and Dementia Consortium

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. SLEEP 2025-05-16 How common it is

    The pooled sample comprised 4657 participants (30% women) aged ≥ 60 years (mean age was 74 years at sleep assessment).

  16. Association of Cardiovascular‐Kidney‐Metabolic Syndrome With Cognitive Decline and Dementia: The ARIC Study Insights

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of the American Heart Association 2025-05-15 Long-term cohort studies

    Elevated CKM risk level is significantly associated with increased risks of cognitive decline and dementia incidence.

  17. Could self-reporting sleep duration become an important tool in the prediction of dementia?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics 2025-05-15 Risk factors

    In preclinical studies, partial or complete sleep deprivation produced inflammation, oxidative stress, as well as increased tau hyperphosphorylation and amyloid-β burden.

  18. Time-Dependent Risk of Dementia Following Epilepsy Diagnosis: A Nationwide Cohort Study in South Korea

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 2025-05-15 Getting a diagnosis

    Dementia risk was significantly higher in patients with epilepsy compared with that of controls (IRR: 3.65; 95% CI: 3.14-4.24), especially within the first 2 years post-diagnosis (aHR: 5.42; 95% CI: 4.30-6.83), peaking between 8 and 10 years (aHR: 8.25; 95% CI: 3.15-21.5).

  19. Development and validation of a novel predictive model for dementia risk in middle-aged and elderly depression individuals: a large and longitudinal machine learning cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2025-05-13 How common it is

    During a median follow-up of 7.98 years, 896 incident dementia cases were identified among study participants.

  20. Patients With Moderate to Severe Dementia Who Undergo Elective TKA Face Elevated Risks of Death, Delirium, and Intensive Interventions: A Large, Propensity-weighted Database Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research 2025-05-13 Clinical safety

    After adjusting for potentially confounding variables such as age, gender, and comorbidities, we found that individuals with mild dementia (HR 1.74 [95% confidence interval (CI) 1.12 to 2.70]; p = 0.01) and moderate to severe dementia (HR 3.05 [95% CI 1.80 to 5.17]; p < 0.001) both demonstrated elevated hazards of death compared with patients without dementia.

  21. Residential exposure to road and railway traffic noise and incidence of dementia: The UK Biobank cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Environmental Research 2025-05-06 How common it is

    Distinct associations between different traffic noise exposures and incident dementia subtypes were found in this large UK prospective cohort study.

  22. The fall-dementia connection: Synergistic effects of falls with genetic and health risk factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-05-05 Genetics

    Falls before dementia were linked to a higher risk of dementia.

  23. Association of Mediterranean, high-quality, and anti-inflammatory diet with dementia in UK Biobank cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. The journal of nutrition health & aging 2025-05-01 How common it is

    Over a median follow-up of 13.5 years, 1453 dementia cases were identified.

  24. Cardioprotective Glucose-Lowering Agents and Dementia Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. JAMA neurology 2025-05-01 Treatments

    Twenty-six randomized clinical trials were eligible for inclusion (N = 164 531 participants), of which 23 trials (n = 160 191 participants) reported the incidence of dementia or cognitive impairment, including 12 trials evaluating SGLT2is, 10 trials evaluating GLP-1RAs, and 1 trial evaluating pioglitazone (no trials of metformin were identified).

  25. Comprehensive Machine Learning-Based Prediction Model for Delirium Risk in Older Patients with Dementia: Risk Factors Identification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Clinical Interventions in Aging 2025-05-01 Digital health tools

    The final analysis included 636 older dementia patients, with a mean age of 78.2 ± 6.3 years, of whom 187 (29.4%) developed delirium during hospitalization.

  26. Regional variability of the impact of cardiometabolic diseases on incident dementia in United States Medicare beneficiaries

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Alzheimer s & Dementia 2025-05-01 Risk factors

    The nationwide combined weighted PAF for the eight CMDs was 37% overall, with hypertension (9.6%), ischemic heart disease (6.7%), and chronic heart failure (5.7%) associated with the greatest attributable fractions of dementia cases.

  27. Sex and socioeconomic differences in 15-year prevalence trends for modifiable dementia risk factors in Australia: a cross-sectional, time series analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. The Lancet Healthy Longevity 2025-05-01 Risk factors

    In mid-life, the sample sizes ranged from 4100 in 2022 to 5589 in 2017-18 and in late-life from 2799 in 2011-12 to 3762 in 2017-18.

  28. The Association of Apathy With Incident Dementia: A Multiple Mediation Analysis of Cardiovascular Risk Factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2025-05-01 Risk factors

    Of the association between apathy and dementia (HR 1.49 [95% CI 0.99-2.41]), 27% was mediated by physical inactivity, BMI and diabetes combined.

  29. Seasonal and daily variation in indoor light and temperature are associated with sleep disturbance in dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. SLEEP 2025-04-30 Risk factors

    Mechanisms regulating human sleep and physiology have evolved in response to rhythmic variation in environmental variables driven by the Earth's rotation around its axis and the Sun.

  30. Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, metabolic alcohol-related liver disease, and incident dementia: a nationwide cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. BMC Gastroenterology 2025-04-29 How common it is

    Over 7,430,253 person-years of follow-up, 11,345 dementia cases occurred (10,863 AD and 2,159 VaD).

  31. Antihypertensive drug classes and risk of incident dementia: a multinational population-based cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Age and Ageing 2025-04-28 How common it is

    One million nine hundred twenty-five thousand, five hundred sixty-three individuals were included across the four databases with a median follow-up ranging from 5.6 to 8.4 years.

  32. The Association of Ambient Air Pollution With Dynamic Transitions of Cataract and Dementia: A UK Biobank Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2025-04-28 Long-term cohort studies

    Our study suggested that the long‐term exposure to air pollution was associated an increased risk of the transitions from health to incident cataract, dementia or the progression of both conditions.

  33. Among all participants, 247 (11.7%) had IADL limitations at baseline, and 151 (7.1%) developed dementia during follow-up.

  34. Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and neuroimaging markers of dementia risk: A pilot study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Pregnancy 2025-04-24 Disparities

    Midlife individuals who experienced HDP had lower regional CBF and reduced white matter microstructural integrity, compared with those with no adverse pregnancy outcomes.

  35. Fifty-four participants (~8% response rate) from the MindCrowd web-based cohort (mean age of 62.39 years; 39 females; and 23 APOE ε4 carriers) completed 75 trials of Super G. Results show that Super G performance was significantly associated with each of the targeted risk factors.

  36. UTI risk factors in older people living with dementia: A conceptual framework and a scoping review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Dementia 2025-04-24 Risk factors

    The literature review scrutinized 1394 articles, selecting 14 through rigorous evaluation.

  37. Association Between Metabolic Syndrome and Young-Onset Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neurology 2025-04-23 How common it is

    A total of 1,979,509 participants (mean age, 49.0 years; 51.3% men; 50.7% with MetS) were included.

  38. Relationship Between Depression and Neurodegeneration: Risk Factor, Prodrome, Consequence, or Something Else? A Scoping Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Biomedicines 2025-04-23 Risk factors

    Most studies suggest depression may contribute to neurodegeneration, but clinical, neuroimaging, and longitudinal evidence also support its role as a prodrome or consequence, indicating a bidirectional relationship.

  39. Abdominal obesity and the risk of young-onset dementia in women: a nationwide cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy 2025-04-21 How common it is

    Over a median follow-up of 8.2 years, YOD incidence increased progressively with higher WC.

  40. Association between frailty and the progression trajectories of stroke and dementia comorbidity: insights from observational and genetic analyses

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics 2025-04-21 Vascular contributions

    The final analysis included 459,924 participants.

  41. Blood pressure reduction and all-cause dementia in people with uncontrolled hypertension: an open-label, blinded-endpoint, cluster-randomized trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 82 out of 100. Nature Medicine 2025-04-21 Prevention and risk

    Dementia is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide.

  42. Global trends in prevalence, disability adjusted life years, and risk factors for early onset dementia from 1990 to 2021

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Scientific Reports 2025-04-18 How common it is

    This study aims to analyze temporal trends in the prevalence and disability-adjusted life year (DALY) burden of early-onset dementia (EOD) globally from 1990 to 2021 and assess the attributable burdens of modifiable risk factors.

  43. Factors associated with dementia risk reduction lifestyle in mild cognitive impairment: a cross-sectional study of individuals and their family caregivers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. BMC Neurology 2025-04-17 Prevention and risk

    DRRLS score of 83.61 ± 16.13, multiple linear regression showed that the patient's monthly individual income, the presence of chronic disease, health beliefs, and social support were independent influences on their dementia risk reduction lifestyle.

  44. Global Prevalence, Incidence, and Factors Influencing Falls in Older Adults With Dementia: Implications for Nursing and Healthy Aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Journal of Nursing Scholarship 2025-04-16 How common it is

    This meta-analysis included 21 studies involving 35,449 participants.

  45. Risk Factors Associated With Late-Onset Epilepsy in Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. JAMA Neurology 2025-04-14 Prevention and risk

    Of the 14 685 participants (7355 female [50%] and 7330 male [50%]; mean [SD] age, 73.8 [8.5] years) who met the inclusion criteria, 221 participants (1.5%) developed LOE during follow-up.

  46. Associations between the EAT-Lancet planetary health diet and incident dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-04-12 Prevention and risk

    With one of the scores, higher adherence to the EAT-Lancet diet was associated with a reduced risk of AD and all-cause dementia.

  47. Herpes zoster as risk factor for dementia: a matched cohort study over 20 years in a 10-million population in Italy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-04-12 How common it is

    We identified 132,968 individuals, of whom 12,088 with severe Zoster, 60,440 matched controls among the general population, and 60,440 matched controls among the hospitalised population.

  48. Association of Body Mass Index in Late Life, and Change from Midlife to Late Life, With Incident Dementia in the ARIC Study Participants

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2025-04-11 Disparities

    A total of 5,129 participants were included in the study (59% female; 22% identified as Black; mean (standard deviation) age at visit 5 of 75 (5) years).

  49. Chronotype as a potential risk factor for cognitive decline: The mediating role of sleep quality and health behaviours in a 10-year follow-up study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease 2025-04-11 Risk factors

    - Cognition was assessed with the Ruff Figural Fluency Test (RFFT), measuring non-verbal fluency and executive functioning.

  50. Mediators of educational differences in dementia risk later in life: evidence from the HUNT study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. BMC Public Health 2025-04-10 Brain tissue and pathology

    Despite a well-known inverse association between education and dementia risk, the mediating mechanisms are not well understood.

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