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A systematic review of the quality of studies on dementia prevalence in Italy
BACKGROUND: Dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD), is one of the most burdensome medical conditions. In order to better understand the epidemiology of dementia in Italy, we conducted a systematic search of studies published between 1980 and April 2014 investigating the prevalence of dementia...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5081842/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27784338 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1871-y |
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author | Bruti, Gianluca Cavallucci, Elisabetta Mancini, Michele Bitossi, Alessandro Baldereschi, Marzia Sorbi, Sandro |
author_facet | Bruti, Gianluca Cavallucci, Elisabetta Mancini, Michele Bitossi, Alessandro Baldereschi, Marzia Sorbi, Sandro |
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description | BACKGROUND: Dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD), is one of the most burdensome medical conditions. In order to better understand the epidemiology of dementia in Italy, we conducted a systematic search of studies published between 1980 and April 2014 investigating the prevalence of dementia and AD in Italy and then evaluated the quality of the selected studies. METHODS: A systematic search was performed using PubMed/Medline and Embase to identify Italian population-based studies on the prevalence of dementia among people aged ≥60 years. The quality of the studies was scored according to Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) criteria. RESULTS: Sixteen articles on the prevalence of dementia and AD in Italy were eligible and 75 % of them were published before the year 2000. Only one study was a national survey, whereas most of the studies were locally based (Northern Italy and Tuscany). Overall, the 16 studies were attributed a mean ADI quality score of 7.6 (median 7.75). CONCLUSIONS: Available studies on the prevalence of dementia and AD in Italy are generally old, of weak quality, and do not include all regions of Italy. The important limitations of the few eligible studies included in our analysis, mostly related to their heterogeneous design, make our systematic review difficult to interpret from an epidemiologic point of view. Full implementation of a Dementia National Plan is highly needed to better understand the epidemiology of the disease and monitor dementia patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-50818422016-10-28 A systematic review of the quality of studies on dementia prevalence in Italy Bruti, Gianluca Cavallucci, Elisabetta Mancini, Michele Bitossi, Alessandro Baldereschi, Marzia Sorbi, Sandro BMC Health Serv Res Research Article BACKGROUND: Dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD), is one of the most burdensome medical conditions. In order to better understand the epidemiology of dementia in Italy, we conducted a systematic search of studies published between 1980 and April 2014 investigating the prevalence of dementia and AD in Italy and then evaluated the quality of the selected studies. METHODS: A systematic search was performed using PubMed/Medline and Embase to identify Italian population-based studies on the prevalence of dementia among people aged ≥60 years. The quality of the studies was scored according to Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) criteria. RESULTS: Sixteen articles on the prevalence of dementia and AD in Italy were eligible and 75 % of them were published before the year 2000. Only one study was a national survey, whereas most of the studies were locally based (Northern Italy and Tuscany). Overall, the 16 studies were attributed a mean ADI quality score of 7.6 (median 7.75). CONCLUSIONS: Available studies on the prevalence of dementia and AD in Italy are generally old, of weak quality, and do not include all regions of Italy. The important limitations of the few eligible studies included in our analysis, mostly related to their heterogeneous design, make our systematic review difficult to interpret from an epidemiologic point of view. Full implementation of a Dementia National Plan is highly needed to better understand the epidemiology of the disease and monitor dementia patients. BioMed Central 2016-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5081842/ /pubmed/27784338 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1871-y Text en © Bruti et al. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Bruti, Gianluca Cavallucci, Elisabetta Mancini, Michele Bitossi, Alessandro Baldereschi, Marzia Sorbi, Sandro A systematic review of the quality of studies on dementia prevalence in Italy |
title | A systematic review of the quality of studies on dementia prevalence in Italy |
title_full | A systematic review of the quality of studies on dementia prevalence in Italy |
title_fullStr | A systematic review of the quality of studies on dementia prevalence in Italy |
title_full_unstemmed | A systematic review of the quality of studies on dementia prevalence in Italy |
title_short | A systematic review of the quality of studies on dementia prevalence in Italy |
title_sort | systematic review of the quality of studies on dementia prevalence in italy |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5081842/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27784338 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1871-y |
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