What is it about?
This is a review of all meta-analyses of risk factors for dementia that were published until September 2018. We summate all the evidence and also evaluate the quality of the body of evidence drawn from observational studies for each risk factor.
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Why is it important?
The public, governments and health care providers are increasingly producing guidelines and policies related to dementia risk reduction. It is crucial that this is based on high quality evidence. Although there are many articles published on individual risk factors, prior to our paper being published there was limited evaluation of the globally available evidence.
Perspectives
This is the most comprehensive review of the observational evidence on risk factors for dementia that has ever been published. It identifies strength and weakness in the evidence base, and future directions for research. A striking finding was the lack of global representativeness in the evidence for some key risk factors.
Prof Kaarin J Anstey
University of New South Wales
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This page is a summary of: A Systematic Review of Meta-Analyses that Evaluate Risk Factors for Dementia to Evaluate the Quantity, Quality, and Global Representativeness of Evidence, Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, August 2019, IOS Press,
DOI: 10.3233/jad-190181.
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