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A neuropathological study of dementia in nursing homes in Shimane Prefecture, Japan
— evaluation of the age and gender effect | | Author(s) | Haruo Seno, Hiroshi Ishino, Takuji Inagaki |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological sciences and Medical Sciences, vol 54A, no 6, June 1999 |
| Pages | pp M312-314 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Nursing homes ; Older men ; Older women ; Postmortems ; Longitudinal surveys ; Japan. |
| Annotation | Vascular dementia (VD) has been held responsible for most dementia cases in both epidemiological and neuropathological studies in Japan. The aim of this study was to clarify relative frequencies of dementia neuropathologically in Japanese nursing home residents over a 7-year period and to clarify the gender and age effect on the relative frequencies. Subjects comprised 310 deceased nursing home residents (146 men and 164 women), including dementia cases in Shimane prefecture, Japan. Of these, 122 (39%: 48 men and 74 women) had shown signs of dementia during their lives. In classifying dementia type, Alzheimer's disease (AD) accounted for 34% (41), VD 35% (42), mixed dementia 11% (14), and "other" dementia 20% (25) of all samples. As to the gender and age effect, the most characteristic findings were: VD cases were only in the 57-69 year age group; the 70-79 male age group lacked any cases with only AD; more AD than VD was found in older men; and in women, AD was the major cause of dementia in total. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990826203 A |
| Classmark | EA: LHB: BC: BD: JVP: 3J: 7DT |
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