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Gender and Age Differences and the Trend in the Incidence and Prevalence of Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease in Taiwan: A 7-Year National Population-Based Study.
Liu, Chih-Ching; Li, Chung-Yi; Sun, Yu; Hu, Susan C.
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  • Liu CC; Department of Public Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, No. 1, University Road, Tainan City 701, Taiwan.
  • Li CY; Department of Public Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, No. 1, University Road, Tainan City 701, Taiwan.
  • Sun Y; Department of Public Health, College of Public Health, China Medical University, Taichung 404, Taiwan.
  • Hu SC; Department of Neurology, En Chu Kong Hospital, No. 399, Fuxing Road, Sanxia District, New Taipei City 23702, Taiwan.
Biomed Res Int ; 2019: 5378540, 2019.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31815145
BACKGROUND: Very few nationwide studies have focused on the variations in the incidence and prevalence of dementia and Alzheimer's disease (AD) in Asian countries. This study aims to describe the gender and age differences in the incidence and prevalence of dementia and AD in Taiwan. METHODS: The data on dementia and AD were acquired from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database from 2004 to 2010. The sex and age-specific rates were standardized, and the differences of gender and age on dementia or AD were assessed using Poisson regression analysis. RESULTS: Over seven years, the prevalence of dementia and AD significantly increased from 4.7 to 7.6 per hundred people (ß = 0.0784, p < 0.0001) and 2.3 to 3.5 per hundred people (ß = 0.0696, p < 0.0001), respectively. However, the incidence of both dementia and AD decreased but not significantly from 10.9 to 10.7 and 4.9 to 4.6 per thousand person-years, respectively. Noticeably, both incidence and prevalence increased with age and were higher in women than in men. CONCLUSIONS: The standardized incidence rates of dementia and AD are much lower than the data reported in some studies from Europe, the US, and Japan. Further studies are warranted to explore which factors are associated with the differences in the incidence of dementia and AD in Taiwan.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Demencia / Enfermedad de Alzheimer Tipo de estudio: Diagnostic_studies / Etiology_studies / Incidence_studies / Prevalence_studies / Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Aspecto: Determinantes_sociais_saude Límite: Aged / Aged80 / Humans País/Región como asunto: Asia Idioma: En Revista: Biomed Res Int Año: 2019 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Taiwán Pais de publicación: Estados Unidos
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Demencia / Enfermedad de Alzheimer Tipo de estudio: Diagnostic_studies / Etiology_studies / Incidence_studies / Prevalence_studies / Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Aspecto: Determinantes_sociais_saude Límite: Aged / Aged80 / Humans País/Región como asunto: Asia Idioma: En Revista: Biomed Res Int Año: 2019 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Taiwán Pais de publicación: Estados Unidos