Abstract:Background:Understanding of the association between community-level socioeconomic status and dementia is insufficient. We examined the contextual effect of community-level prevalence of lower educational attainment on the risk of dementia incidence. This work further explored the potential differences in associations for urban and non-urban areas. Methods:We analyzed a six-year prospective cohort data from the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study, a nationwide survey between 2010 and 2012 of 49,888 (23,339 me… Show more
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