Five Hundred Patients with Memory Loss in One Clinic in India: Does the Prevalence Vary Between Communities?

This observational study reports on the cause of memory loss in 500 consecutive patients. It confirms the previously reported finding in a smaller sample of 100 patients. There have been several publications suggesting that the prevalence of dementia is lower in certain communities but the reason is...

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Autores principales: Chandra, Vijay, Mehta, Veer Singh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: IOS Press 2019
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Research Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6971816/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31970324
http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/ADR-190140
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description This observational study reports on the cause of memory loss in 500 consecutive patients. It confirms the previously reported finding in a smaller sample of 100 patients. There have been several publications suggesting that the prevalence of dementia is lower in certain communities but the reason is not known. This study was conducted to see if it could explain the variation between communities. Also, the observation that dementia with Lewy bodies (24.4%) outnumbers cases of Alzheimer’s disease (5.8%) has not been reported by any other investigators and needs to be verified. This finding could open a new topic of research and also help in the management of patients.
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spelling pubmed-69718162020-01-22 Five Hundred Patients with Memory Loss in One Clinic in India: Does the Prevalence Vary Between Communities? Chandra, Vijay Mehta, Veer Singh J Alzheimers Dis Rep Research Report This observational study reports on the cause of memory loss in 500 consecutive patients. It confirms the previously reported finding in a smaller sample of 100 patients. There have been several publications suggesting that the prevalence of dementia is lower in certain communities but the reason is not known. This study was conducted to see if it could explain the variation between communities. Also, the observation that dementia with Lewy bodies (24.4%) outnumbers cases of Alzheimer’s disease (5.8%) has not been reported by any other investigators and needs to be verified. This finding could open a new topic of research and also help in the management of patients. IOS Press 2019-12-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6971816/ /pubmed/31970324 http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/ADR-190140 Text en © 2019 – IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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