Prevalence of Dementia in a Semi-Rural Population of Catalunya, Spain
作者:
Jordi Pi,
Josep M. Olivé,
Josep Roca,
Lluis Masana,
期刊:
Neuroepidemiology
(Karger Available online 1996)
卷期:
Volume 15,
issue 1
页码: 33-41
ISSN:0251-5350
年代: 1996
DOI:10.1159/000109887
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Dementia;prevalence;Elderly population
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
This study was to investigate the prevalence of dementia in an aging population. A two-phase model was used to obtain information on the socio-demographic, medical and cognitive status of subjects over 65 years of age (n = 516), resident on December 31, 1990, within the general population (n = 3,457) of La Selva del Camp. A diagnostic protocol, following the criteria of DSM-III, was designed for application to all subjects. We diagnosed 64 subjects with dementia, which represented a prevalence of 14.9% of which 3.2% was classified as severe, 4.5% as moderate and 7.3% as slight. The prevalence by age and sex showed a large increase with age and a higher prevalence in females, although the latter was not statistically significant.
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