Prevalence of Dementia in the Elderly

Date
Author
Place
12
1991
Kua
Singapore/Chinese
15
1991
Phantumchinda
Thailand
1
1992
Bachman
Boston
4
1994
Ebly
Canada
11
1994
Kiyohara
Japanese island
1994
Kiyohara11
Japanese island
8
1995
Hendrie
Nigeria
8
Indianapolis AA
1995
Hendrie
15
1995
Ogura
Janpanese islands
7
1996
Graves
Jap heritabe

Age
65+
60+
60+
65+
65+
65+
65+
65+
65+
65+

Sample
612
500
2180
8949
1189
839
2494
2212
3312
1985

63.5
96.6
94.6
98.4
85.6
94
65.1
94.3

1996

Shaji

India

60+

2067

1997

Rajkumar

India

60+

750

1998
1998
1998
1998
1999
2000
2001
2001
2002
2002
2003
2003

Chandra3
Farrag5
Fillenbaum6
Woo22
Breitner2
Lobo14
Senanarong17
Vas21
Herrera9
Lee13
Kim10
De Silva19

India
Egpyt
USA
Korea
Cache Co
11 European studies
Thailand
India
Brazil
Korea
Korea
Sri Lanka

65+
60+
65+

5126
2000
4136
1674
5092
31032
1,070
24488
1660
643
1101
703

65+
60+
65+
65+
65+
65+

RR

Instrument

85

90.7

77.1
89.6

98.7
67.5
89.5

MMSE/CAM
DEX/PSYCH
GMS/AGECA
T/psych

DX
ICD9
DSMIIIR
DSMIIIR
DSMIIIR
DSMIIIR
DSMIII
DSMIIIR
DSMIIIR/ICD10
DSMIIIR
DSMIIIR

Rate
1.8
1.8
4.1
8
3.3
5.4
2.3
8.2
6.6
6.3

DSMIIIR

3.2

ICD10

3.5

DSMIV
DSMIIIR
DSMIV
DSMIIIR
DSMIIIR
DSMIIIR
DSMIV
DSMIV
DSMIV
DSMIV
DSMIIIR
DSMIV

1.4
4.5
7.1
8.4
9.6
6.4
2.3
2.3
7.1
9.1
7.4
4

2003

Suh20

Korea

65+

1037

85.2

DSMIIIR
QUARTILES:
1st.
2nd
3d.

Selection of studies described in Eaton, Martins, Nestadt, Bienvenu, Clarke, and Alexandre, Epidemiologic Reviews, 2008

6.8

3.2
5.4
7.1

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