Revisão sistemática sobre prevalência de demência entre a população brasileira

Boff, Mario Sergio; Sekyia, Felipe Seiti; Bottino, Cássio Machado de Campos

doi:10.11606/issn.1679-9836.v94i3p154-161

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“… 4 The risk for onset is doubled every five years after 65 years of age, and, according to a systematic review from 2015, dementias in the Brazilian population feature a prevalence between 5.1 and 17.5%. 5 …”

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Loss of functional capacity in elderly individuals with Alzheimer disease

Andrade

Melo

Filho

et al. 2020

Dement. neuropsychol.

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ABSTRACT. Background: The functional capacity of elderly individuals with Alzheimer disease (AD) progressively declines. Objective: To verify the influence of sociodemographic, clinical, staging, mobility, and postural and cognitive balance data on the impairment of the functional capacity of elderly individuals with AD. Methods: This observational, analytical, cross-sectional study was performed at the Physiotherapy Department of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. The study consisted of forty elderly individuals aged ≥60 years old with mild or moderate AD, who could ambulate independently. The instruments used included a questionnaire to assess sociodemographic and anthropometric data; the Mini-Mental Health State Examination (MMSE); the Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR); a clock drawing test (CDT); a verbal fluency test (VFT); the Timed Up and Go Test (TUG); and the Clinical Test of Sensory Organization and Balance (CTSIB). Simple descriptive analyses, Mann-Whitney test, Spearman's correlation test, linear regression modeling, and prediction equation (p<0.05, 95% confidence interval [95%CI]) were performed. Results: Fifteen linear regression models were generated, with the final model chosen for analysis. The variables assumed in that model were CDR, MMSE score, and condition 3 of the CTSIB, which explained 60.1% of the outcome. Conclusions: Impairment of functional capacity in elderly individuals with AD was influenced by disease progression, which was due to cognitive deficits and deficits in postural balance, which are related to the inaccuracy of the somatosensory system in performing sensory integration.

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Loss of functional capacity in elderly individuals with Alzheimer disease

Andrade

Melo

Filho

et al. 2020

Dement. neuropsychol.

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“…AD is a neurodegenerative disease that causes progressive deterioration of intellectual and routine skills, as well as cognitive impairment 4 . In Brazil, it is estimated that 6% of the 15 million people who are over the age of 60 suffer from AD 4,5 .…”

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Prevalence of Alzheimer's disease according to anticholinesterase drug usage from 2012 to 2017 in the state of Paraná, Brazil

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Introduction: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a public health problem in Brazil due to the growing number of older adults in this population. Knowing the prevalence of AD in the Paraná state is essential to improve patients’ quality of life. The objective of the study was to estimate AD prevalence in the state of Paraná, based on the prescription of anticholinesterases, from 2012 to 2017. Methods: Patients diagnosed with AD, aged 60 years or over, who used Brazil’s Unified Public Health System (SUS) and received AD medication from the Department of Pharmaceutical Assistance of the state of Paraná, from 2012 to 2017, were the target population of the present study. The medication data were collected from the Computerized system management and Monitoring of Exceptional Drugs (SISMEDEX), and the population’s data were collected from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). Results: The sample consisted of 52,687 patients, and the median prevalence of AD in the established period for the state was 642.6/100,000 inhabitants (0.64%). In all ages and macro-regions, women showed the highest prevalence rates. The median prevalence for women in the established period was 755.4/100,000 inhabitants (0.75%). Among men, the median prevalence was 510.2/100,000 inhabitants (0.51%). In the temporal analysis of prevalence, between 2012 and 2017, a reduction of 23% was found in the state rate. The prevalence rate of Paraná for AD is nine times lower than the Brazilian average. Conclusions: Paraná’s prevalence rate for AD is lower than the rates of Brazil and the world, suggesting that AD is underdiagnosed in most municipalities of this state.

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“…According to the Global Dementia Observatory, about 50 million people suffer from dementia and there are almost 10 million new cases per year, six million of them in low-and middle-income countries [5]. In fact, Brazil has the second highest age-standardised prevalence of dementia [6], studies found rates varying between 5.1% [7] and 17.5% [8], being the point prevalence of dementia and of major neurocognitive disorder in 2018, 6.2% and 8.1%, respectively [9].…”

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Towards adopting serious games for cognitive tests with Brazilian older people

Amaral

Fortes

Chagas

et al. 2019

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Serious games are a promising tool in different scenarios, such as education and health; however, there has been little research reported on their specialized use for older adults. We created a digital cognitive test – with the characteristics of a serious game – using Unified Design aiming to reproduce digitally the results of clinical cognitive evaluation in older people. The digital cognitive test was submitted to two validation experiments targeting an older public (n=40) with little experience in dealing with tablets or smartphones. The first experiment did not show significant correlation, but from it, we implemented initiatives to simplify the tests, which brought a positive result regarding convergence analysis in the second experiment. We concluded that it is possible to use digital games as cognitive tests adapted to the needs of older adults to achieve similar results as those of paper-based cognitive tests.

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Revisão sistemática sobre prevalência de demência entre a população brasileira

Cited by 20 publications

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Loss of functional capacity in elderly individuals with Alzheimer disease

Loss of functional capacity in elderly individuals with Alzheimer disease

Prevalence of Alzheimer's disease according to anticholinesterase drug usage from 2012 to 2017 in the state of Paraná, Brazil

Towards adopting serious games for cognitive tests with Brazilian older people

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