       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

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