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Dementia diagnosis and prevalence in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 using medical data linkage
2022-11-18
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<h4>Background</h4> The Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 (LBC1936) is a longitudinal study of ageing with well-characterised assessments, but until now, it has relied on self-report or proxies for dementia outcomes. This report describes a framework for clinical dementia ascertainment and its implementation. We report the prevalence of all-cause dementia and dementia subtypes in 865 individuals aged 70 years and older fr...
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- Literature Corpus work
- c02199fa-a1e9-5bf2-b3e8-db77c5397a2c
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.11.18.22282515
