Global prevalence of dementia: a Delphi consensus study

By C. Ferri, M. Prince, Carol Brayne, Henry Brodaty, Laura Fratiglioni, M. Ganguli, K. Hall, K. Hasegawa, H. Hendrie, Yueqin Huang and 5 more. The Lancet, 2005

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Sleep disturbances increase the risk of dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis. (2017, methodology): “The studies that w ere included in this meta-analysis were screened for the following inclusion criteria: (1) evaluated associations between sleep disturbances and dementia, (2) diagnosed dementia b ased on international diagnostic criteria and actual medical records, (3) performed a longitu dinal s”
Sleep Fragmentation and the Risk of Incident Alzheimer's Disease and Cognitive Decline in Older Persons. (2013, background): “26 As many as 50% of older adults report sleep problems, 27 many of which may be amenable to medical treatments or behavioral modification.”
Current and future treatments for Alzheimer’s disease (2013, background): “Dementia is increasingly being recognized as one of the most important medical problems in older people with a prevalence rising from 1% at the age of 60 to at least 35% at the age of 90 [Ferri et al. 2005].”
The Accuracy of Medicare Claims as an Epidemiological Tool: The Case of Dementia Revisited (2009, neutral): “The increasing number of persons diagnosed with dementia is a deﬁning demographic fact of American society that will have a profound impact on both families and the formal health care system [1].”
The global prevalence of dementia: A systematic review and metaanalysis (2013, methodology): “The differences in approach between the current study and the generation of the earlier ADI/Lancet estimates [4] are summarized in Table E1.”
Multidimensional classification of hippocampal shape features discriminates Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment from normal aging (2009, neutral): “Keywords Alzheimer's disease; MCI; Hippocampus; Magnetic resonance imaging; Support vector machines Introduction Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent form of dementia in the elderly and the number of affected patients is expected to double in the next 20 years (Ferri et al., 2005).”
β-amyloid imaging and memory in non-demented individuals: evidence for preclinical Alzheimer's disease (2007, background): “at age 85 years (Ferri et al., 2005), suggesting that neuropathological changes precede the clinical expression of AD by many years (Price and Morris, 1999; Bennett et al.”
Global Epidemiology of Dementia: Alzheimer's and Vascular Types (2014, background): “Although epidemiological information about the prevalence of dementia and its subtypes remains scarce [2, 4], the Delphi Consensus Study found that the prevalence of dementia was high in Americas and low in less developed regions of the world, such as Africa and the Middle East.”
Forecasting the global burden of Alzheimer's disease (2007, methodology): “Recently, Alzheimer’s Disease International, an inernational consortium of Alzheimer’s associations, prouced estimates of the worldwide prevalence of people with ementia [2].”