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Document 0730
DOCN M9640730
TI [Dementias: current situation and future perspectives]
DT 9604
AU Espert R; Bertolin JM; Navarro JF; Gonzalez A; Area de Psicobiologia,
Facultad de Psicologia, Universitat de; Valencia.
SO Rev Neurol. 1995 Jan-Feb;23(119):70-6. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
MED/96085359
AB In this paper, the first one in a series of three complementary papers
on dementias, we introduce the concept and evaluate the methods for
diagnostic and the data provided by modern epidemiology. The current
clinic criteria for the diagnosis of dementias are based on
international instructions such as those included in the DSM-III-R
(1987), and the ICD-10 (1992), and the criteria developed by the
NINCDS-ADRDA or the CERAD. Such a disparity makes even more difficult
the transcultural reliability of epidemiological information. The
differentiation with pseudodementias, being the depressive one the most
frequent of them (75%), the inclusion of the denominated dementia-AIDS
complex, or those dementias related with the alcoholic illness have
special relevance. In Europe the more solid studies proceed from the
EURODEM group, and their results are consistent with the North American
and Asiatic ones, pointing all of them out an exponential growing of
dementia with age, which is very similar in the different continents.
The risk factors for the Alzheimer's disease and other dementias are
discussed and contrasted with the contributions of the different
reliable documental sources existing.
DE Aged Alzheimer's Disease/*DIAGNOSIS/*EPIDEMIOLOGY Asia/EPIDEMIOLOGY
Dementia/*DIAGNOSIS/*EPIDEMIOLOGY Diagnosis, Differential English
Abstract Europe/EPIDEMIOLOGY Female Health Care Costs Human
Incidence Male Middle Age North America/EPIDEMIOLOGY Prevalence
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Risk Factors JOURNAL ARTICLE REVIEW
REVIEW, TUTORIAL
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
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