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Epidemiologic and genetic studies of dementia of the alzheimer type in japan.
Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders - 1 Jan 2000
Urakami K, Adachi Y, Wakutani Y, Isoe K, Ji Y, Takahashi K, Nakashima K
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We carried out two separate epidemiological studies on long-term changes, 10 years apart, on the prevalence rate of dementia in the elderly by the same method for the same area in Japan. We also performed a genetic study of patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) based on the epidemiological studies. The number of patients with dementia was much larger in 1990 than in 1980. Especially, the number of...
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