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Prevenção da demência com abordagens multimodais [PDF]
Abstract Background Dementia, including Alzheimer's Disease (AD), is a growing public health challenge with significant impacts on individuals and healthcare systems (CRIVELI, 2023). Prevention through multimodal strategies is essential to mitigate this epidemic (ROSENBER, 2020). The complexity of dementia requires approaches that simultaneously target
de Oliveira Alves J.
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Association between brain structure imaging and health factors in a low education cohort [PDF]
Abstract Background Dementia is rising globally, with a significant impact in Latin America. Low education has been associated with reduced cognitive reserve and structural brain changes, increasing vulnerability to neurodegeneration. However, the factors influencing these brain alterations remain an emerging area of research.
Brown G +11 more
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A harmonized framework for studying exceptional cognitive aging in Latin America. [PDF]
Abstract INTRODUCTION Biological, genetic, and sociocultural factors underlying cognitive resilience and resistance to pathology remain unexplored in Latin America. The Life‐Course Epidemiology of Aging, Resilience, and Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's Disease (LEARN‐AD) study and Latin American SuperAgers Study (LASAS) establish the first harmonized ...
Crivelli L +20 more
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Influence of behavioral and psychological symptoms on caregiver burden for different types of dementia: clinical experience in Lima, Peru [PDF]
Abstract Background People caring of individuals with dementia are prone to suffering from burden. Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) may have an impact on caregiver burden. In Latin American countries there is lack of research on caregiver burden. We aimed to determine which BPSD have the greatest impact on caregiver burden among
Montesinos R +9 more
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Need to adapt Alzheimer's disease criteria in Latin America. [PDF]
Alzheimer's &Dementia, Volume 20, Issue 11, Page 8206-8208, November 2024.
Custodio N +3 more
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INTRODUCCIÓN: La enfermedad cerebrovascular y las demencias están unidas por el deterioro cognitivo y la demencia vascular. Se trata de condiciones de salud potencialmente prevenibles, capaces de generar discapacidad, especialmente en la población
Sofia Campuzano Cortina +2 more
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RESUMO Atualmente não há tratamento curativo para as demências neurodegenerativas ou para a demência vascular, mas algumas intervenções farmacológicas e não farmacológicas podem contribuir para aliviar os sintomas, retardar a progressão da doença e ...
Paulo Caramelli +17 more
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Como diagnosticar as quatro causas mais freqüentes de demência? [PDF]
Doença de Alzheimer, demência vascular, demência com corpos de Lewy e demência frontotemporal são as quatro causas mais freqüentes de demência na prática clínica.
Paulo Caramelli +1 more
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CADASIL: a propósito de um caso clínico
Introdução: A arteriopatia cerebral autossómica dominante com enfartes subcorticais e leucoencefalopatia (CADASIL) é a doença de pequenos vasos cerebrais hereditária mais comum, causada por mutações no gene NOTCH3. As suas manifestações clínicas iniciam-
Ana Luísa Corte Real, Sara Zeferino
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Demência vascular: dificuldades diagnósticas e tratamento [PDF]
JUSTIFICATIVA: O tratamento dos pacientes com síndrome demencial depende do diagnóstico correto de sua etiologia e da utilização de critérios objetivos de avaliação do curso da doença.
CHARLES ANDRÉ
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