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| Increasing prevalence of dementia among very old people | | Author(s) | Johan Mathillas, Hugo Lovheim, Yngve Gustafson |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 40, no 2, March 2011 |
| Pages | pp 243-249 |
| Source | http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/ http://www.bgs.org.uk/ |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Octogenarians ; Longitudinal surveys ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | The study compared the prevalence of dementia in two population-based cross-sectional samples of very old people in northern Sweden in 2000-02 and in 2005-07. In total, 430 men and women aged 85 and older were evaluated for dementia in the first cross-section and 465 individuals in the second. The prevalence of dementia in the total sample was 26.5% in 2000-02 and 37.2% in 2005-07. There was also an increase in the prescription of different antihypertensive agents, antilipemic agents and choline esterase inhibitors, and more people had had heart surgery in the later sample. An overall increase in the age-specific prevalence of dementia was detected over the five years. Possible reasons for this may be extended survival among individuals with risk factors for dementia and among individuals with established dementia. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-110323008 A |
| Classmark | EA: BBM: 3J: 76P |
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